Suzanne Meloche, Québec Poet and Painter

As part of the annual A Celebrated Oeuvre event,which highlights artist Suzanne Meloche and her work Confrontation (1964), attend a lecture by Bernard Lamarche, curator of contemporary art.

While she was not a signatory of the Refus global, Suzanne Meloche was an active figure in the Automatiste movement alongside Marcel Barbeau and Paul-Émile Borduas. She exhibited at several major events between 1946 and 1964, then left the art world to lead a life of travel and social involvement abroad.

Today, her pictorial work is rarely found in public collections. It is characterized by a dense, personal gestural style, as evidenced by Confrontation, a painting with visually striking formal tension and black saturation. The Musée has just acquired this work which dates to 1964, the year of the artist’s farewell to the visual arts.

Long relegated to the shadows of history, Suzanne Meloche is resurfacing today as a key voice of Québec modernity—an artist worth rediscovering whose expressive power and free career resonate with unsettling intensity.

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After the lecture, you are invited for a glass of friendship in front of Confrontation, in the Salon Desjardins.