Beaulieu, Paul-Vanier
 
Biography: Born in Montreal in 1910.

Education:
1927-29 Montreal School of Fines Arts.

Career:

Beaulieu left Canada in the 3o’s and settled in Montmartre (Paris) where he lived for almost 35 years. He met the ‚Fauvesé Derain, Marchand et discovered also the works of Vlaminck. He got acquainted with Georges Rouault and Picasso and some others of the ‚Boh?meé, that famous period where Paris was the enter of the Art world. His unique style is a synthesis of all the influences of the era. Arrested in 1940 as a British citizen (canadian), he was jailed at the Fresnes concentration camp with his friend Dallaire. Freed in 1945, he was rapatriated to Canada but confronted with the cultural emptyness of Quebec, he soon was back to Paris in 1947. In 1952, he involved himself in original prints, publishing a magnificent album of 33 lithographies titled "o visages" on poems by Jean-Louis Vallas. Even if he had chosen Europe to live, he held regular exhibitions in Montreal, mainly at Dominion Gallery. He returned to his homeland in 1976, bought a house in the Laurentides where he died in 1996.



Collections: Many private and public collections. Museums of Fine Arts of Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa. Also the Museum of Modern Art (Paris) and Jezabel Museum in Jerusalem.