1971-1975

Posthumous Tribute: 1971-1975

1971

Traveling exhibition. “A Tribute to Samuel J. Zacks from the Sam and Ayala Zacks Collection”, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (May 21 – June 27); presented after at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2 – 31 ?).

47. Silence magnétique, 1957

Traveling exhibition. “Gift from the Douglas M. Duncan Collection and the Milne-Duncan Bequest”, at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON (March 5 – April 4); at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON (1st – May 31,); at the Robert McLaughin Gallery, Oshawa, ON (June 15 – July 15); at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, (1st – August 31); at Memorial University, Saint-John, NL (September 15 – October 15); at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, QC ( 1st - November 30); at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON (December 15 – January 15, 1972); at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB (1st – February 1972); at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (March 15 – April 15, 1972); at the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, AB (1st – May 31, 1972); at the Edmonton Art Gallery, AB (June 15 – July 15, 1972); at the Mendel Art Gallery, SK, Saskatchewan (1st – August 31, 1972); at the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK (September 15 – October 15, 1972); and at the Rothmans Art Gallery of Stratford, ON (1st – November 30, 1972). Borduas had two paintings:

5. Mirage dans la plaine, 1954
14. Les arènes de Lutèce, 1953

December 2 – January 16, 1972

Traveling exhibition. "Borduas et les Automatistes, Montréal, 1942 – 1955", at the Galerie nationale du Grand Palais, Paris; and at the Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC. Borduas had:

13. Composition (Figure athénienne), 1942
14. Cimetière marin, 1942
15. Printemps, 1942
16. Le bateau fantasque, 1942
17. Phare l’évêque, 1942
18. Composition (La machine à coudre), 1942
19. Tête de coq, 1942
20. Arabesque, 1942
21. La cavale infernale, 1943
22. Glaïeul de flamme, 1943
23. Viol aux confins de la matière, 1943
24. Poisson rouge, 1945
25. État d’âme, 1945
26. Un (= Climat mexicain)
27. Les parachutes végétaux, 1947
28. Envolée de l’épouvantail, 1947
29, Sous le vent de l’île, 1948 (sic for 1947)
30. Joie lacustre, 1948
31. Morning Candelabra, 1948
32. Les yeux de cerise d’une nuit d’hiver, 1950
33. Faune de cristal, 1950
34. Les signes s’envolent, 1953
35. Baiser insolite, 1953 (sic for 1958)
36. Figure aux oiseaux, 1953
37. Les boucliers, 1953
38. Sans titre (=Miroir de givre), 1954
39. Plante généreuse, 1954
40. Sans titre, 1954
41. À la pointe de la falaise, 1954
42. Mouvements contrariés, 1954
43. Translucidité, 1955
44. Souriante, 1955
45. Pulsation, 1955
46. Carnet de Bal, 1955

1972

January 14 – February ?

Montreal, Quebec. “L’art du XXe siècle”, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Borduas had ?

Taveling exhibition. “The Borduas Collection”, presented at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (August 1 – 27); at Le Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, QC (October 2 – November 25, 1973); at the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, Nb (January 15 – February 15, 1974); at Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS (March 1st- March 31, 1974); at Le Centre Culturel, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC ( April 15 – May 15, 1974); Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK (June 1st – June 30, 1974); at the London Public Library and Art Museum, ON (July 15 – August 15, 1974); and at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, ON (September 1st – September 30, 1974). Borduas had:

1, 2, and 3. Sans titre, 1942
4. Sans titre (La grimace), 1943
5. Sans titre, 1943
6. L’éternelle Amérique, 1946
7. Les carnavals des objets délaissés, 1949
8. Composition, 1953
9. Les pins incendiés, 1954
10. La magie des signes, 1954
11. Sans titre (Vert et noir), 1954
12. Sans titre (Déchets), n. d.
13. L’étang recouvert de givre, 1954
14. Pâques, 1954
15. Blanc solide, 1954
16. Brunes figures, 1954
17. Composition, 1954-1955
18 and 19. Sans titre, 1955
20. Composition en blanc, n.d.
21. Sans titre, n.d.
22 and 23. Différentes compositions, n. d.
24. Barres roses, cinq taches noires, n. d.
25. Composition, 1956-1957
26. Fond blanc, 1957
27. Composition en noir et blanc, n. d.
28. Composition, 1958
29. Symphonie en noir, en blanc et en brun, n. d.
30. Composition en gris et blanc, 1958
31. Fond blanc, barre noire, n.d.
32. Trois taches noires, barres roses et grises, n. d.
33. Fond blanc deux barres noires, n.d.
34. Fond blanc, taches noires et marron, n.d.
35. Fond blanc, taches noires, n.d.
36. Fond blanc, n.d.
37. Tache noire, n.d.
38. Sans titre, 1958
39. Composition, n. d.
40. Fond blanc, grandes barres noires, n.d.
41. Symphonie en noir, n. d.
42. Fond blanc, bord noir, n.d.
43. Fond blanc, trois taches noires, n. d.
44. Portrait en blanc, quatre taches noires, 1958-1959
45. Fond blanc, trois taches noires, c. 1958
46. Fond blanc, deux barres noires, n.d.
47. Composition, c. 1959
48 and 49. Sans titre, n.d.
50. Composition, c. 1959
51, Sans titre (Noir et bleu), c. 1959
52. Cinq barres noires, n. d.
53. Composition, 1959
54. Composition en noir et vert, 1960
55. Twenty-one drawings in black ink on parts of Gitanes cigarette packages, n. d.

1973

Traveling exhibition. “Painters of Quebec: Maurice and Andrée Corbeil Collection/Peintres du Québec: Collection Maurice et Andrée Corbeil”, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, QC (March 30 – April 20); at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON (May 11 – June 10, 1973). Borduas was represented by:

70. Composition (= No 8 or Le Félin s’amusant), 1942
71. Fête à la lune, 1948
72. Tango, 1955

1974

June 20 – September 2

Montreal, Quebec. “Les Arts du Québec”, at Terre des Hommes, Pavillon du Québec. Borduas had:

10. Épanouissement, 1956

(???)

Saskatoon, Saskatewan. “Saskatoon collects”, at the Mendel Art Gallery (n.d.). Borduas had:

Modulations aux points noirs, 1955

1975

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“Canadian Painting in the thirties/La peinture canadienne des années trente”, presented at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; have circulated at: Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON; a reduced version circulated at the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, AB; at the Edmonton Art Gallery, AB; at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK; at the Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, QC. Borduas had:

109. Portrait de Maurice Gagnon, 1937

October 20 - 21

“Important Canadian Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours, Books and Prints of the 19th and 20th Centuries”, at Sotheby’s Ltd. Borduas had:

64. Combustion, 1957
143. La crèche (=2.46 or Jéroboam), 1946

December 5, 1975 – January 18, 1976

The “Collective Unconscious: American and Canadian Art, 1940-1950”, at the Edmonton Art Gallery, AB. Borduas had:

Léda, le Cygne et le Serpent, 1943
Espagne, 1945
L’Oiseau déchiffrant un hiéroglyphe, 1943
Parachutes végétaux, 1947

December 12, 1975 – February 1st, 1976

“The Ontario community collects: a survey of Canadian painting from 1766 to the present”, presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; then has circulated in Ontario: at the Sarnia Public Library and Art Gallery (February 27, 1976 – March 24); at the Art Gallery of Winsor, March 21-April26); at St. Catherines and District Arts Council, Rodman Hall (May 7 – May 30); at London Public Library and Art Museum (June 4 – June 27); the Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound (July 8 – July 28); at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (August 6 – August 27); at the Robert McLaughin Gallery, Oshawa (September 3 – October 5); at the Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury (October 12 – October 31); at the Gallery, Stratford (November 5 – November 28); at University of Guelph Art Gallery (December 3 – December 28); and at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (January 6 – January 30, 1977). Borduas work shown was:

Souriante, 1955