Pierre Saint-Mars Gauvreau was a Canadian painter and writer who worked in film and television production.
12 Facts About Pierre Gauvreau
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Pierre Gauvreau was born in Montreal, and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal in 1937, today part of UQAM.
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Pierre Gauvreau became a member of the Contemporary Art Society in 1939.
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Pierre Gauvreau was associated with Quebec artistic dissident group Les Automatistes, showing his work in the first Automatist exhibition in Canada in 1946.
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Pierre Gauvreau became a signatory to the Refus global manifesto, which he typed and printed in his apartment.
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Pierre Gauvreau worked in various aspects of television production during the 1950s.
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Pierre Gauvreau was best known in French-Canada for his popular series, Temps d'une paix.
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Pierre Gauvreau took a break from painting during the 1960s until 1975.
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Pierre Gauvreau continued to paint in 2005, true to his Automatist beginnings.
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Pierre Gauvreau's work has been described as gestural and calligraphic and his later work as looking lace-like.
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Pierre Gauvreau's career was the subject of a Charles Biname documentary, l'obligation de la liberte, and a biography.
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Pierre Gauvreau died on 7 April 2011 of heart failure at the age of 88.