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Alfred Pellan
1988Oct, 31

Alfred Pellan

Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter and academic (b. 1906)
Alfred Pellan, (born Alfred Pelland; 16 May 1906 – 31 October 1988) was an important figure in twentieth-century Quebec painting. He was born in Quebec City in 1906. From the age of fourteen until his graduation in 1926 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Québec. His early canvases, from his first visit to Paris, show a marked fauvist tendency.

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