Fernand Toupin


Fernand Toupin was a Québécois abstract painter best known as a member of the avant-garde movement Les Plasticiens. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Honors

1954 Petit salon d’été, Librairie-galerie Tranquille, Montréal
1955 Les Plasticiens, L’Échourie, Montréal
1956 Toupin et Belzile, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gallery XII
1956 Young sculptures, Sainte-Hélène Island, Montréal
1956 Duo exhibition, exhibition exchanges Canada/USA, Parma Gallery, New York
1958 Salon de la jeune peinture, École des beaux-arts de Montréal
1959 Abstract Art, École des beaux-arts de Montréal
1962 Two Worlds Festival, Spoleto, Italy
1966 Canadian Art, travelling exhibit across Canada from the Sayde and Samuel Bronfman collection
1970 Quebec Pavillon, Osaka World Expo, Japan
1972 Fourth international paintings Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
1973 Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris
1975 Canadian canvas, travelling exhibit of large paintings to nine Canadian museums
1976 Randall Galleries, New York
1977 Jauran et les premiers plasticiens, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
1980 Art Expo, International Art Exposition, New York Coliseum, New York
1980 Dix ans de propositions géométriques, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
1980 Randall Galleries, New York
1987 Accents de la collection Lavalin, Galerie Lavalin, Montréal
1991 Tokyo Central Museum, Japan
1992 Les Plasticiens, National Gallery of Canada / Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec / Winnipeg Art Gallery
2005 Les Plasticiens, Galerie Simon Blais, Montréal
2005 Les Plasticiens, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
2008 Cape Breton University Art Gallery, Sydney, Nova Scotia
2011 Quiet Mutinies: Art in Québec in the 1950s, The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, Alberta
2012 A Matter of Abstraction, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
2013 Les Plasticiens and the 1950s–1960s, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
2013 The Plasticiens and Beyond: Montreal 1955–1970, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, Ontario
2014 Mid-Century Modern, Museum London, London, Ontario
2014 Dialogues formels, Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec
2015 Dialogues de l’oeil, Permanent Collection of the City of Gatineau
2016 Abstracta Delecta: The Quebec Painters, Winchester Galleries, Victoria, B.C.
2017 Montréal d’hier à aujourd’hui, Galerie Michel-Ange, Montréal
2019 Couleurs Manifestes, Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke

Miscellaneous (selection)

1970–72 Tapestries, ateliers Pierre Daquin, Paris
1971 “Germinal,” mural for the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
1974 Set creation for “Au-delà du temps/Time out of mind,” Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
1975 “Errances,” art book on poems by Fernand Ouellette including seven lithographs
1977 Set creation for “La Scouine,” Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
1977 “Hochelaga,” mural for the Wilfrid-Pelletier Concert Hall at Place des Arts in Montréal
1978 “Prochain épisode,” art book on the novel by Hubert Aquin including 14 lithographs and one etching
2005 Participates in the documentary of André Desrochers, “L’intuition intuitionnée” on the first movement of Plasticiens

Public Collections (selection)

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
Musée d’art de Joliette
Musée Laurier
Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup
Place des Arts, Montréal
University of Montréal
City of Montréal
City of Brossard
City of Gatineau
Selection Reader’s Digest
Loto-Québec
Banque Nationale du Canada
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
University of Lethbridge, Alberta
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Museum London, London, Ontario
Statische Kunstgalerie, Bochum, Germany
Centre national d’art contemporain, Paris, France

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