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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Based on a painting by Paul-Émile Borduas, circa 1957, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec. Paul-Émile Borduas was born in St-Hilaire, Quebec, in 1905, and studied there under the well-known Ozias Leduc. The spontaneity of children's art inspired Borduas, and the words of André Breton, a surrealist poet, stimulated him. Breton called for "the dictation of thought, free from any control the reason and of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation." The influx into Montreal of artists fleeing France after the German invasion boosted abstract art in Quebec. It was then that Borduas attempted his first abstract works. A group of like-minded young followers soon surrounded him calling themselves "Les Automatistes". They mounted several exhibitions and in 1948 published a manifesto entitled "Refus global". He later left Canada and died in Paris in 1960. The stamp features Borduas' painting "Untitled No. 6". This painting is in the Musée d'Art contemporain in Montreal. |
| Face value | $0.35 Cents |
| Catalog code (Michel) | CA 800 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | CA 889 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier CA 768 Stanley Gibbons CA 1012 |
| Series | Canadian art |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 11,350,000 |
| Issue date | 22/05/1981 |
| Designer | Pierre Fontaine |
| Paper type | Medium fluorescent with fluorescent frame |
| Print technique | Offset lithography |
| Printed by | British American Bank Note Company |
| Perforation | 13.5 |
| Height | 48.00 mm |
| Width | 40.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
