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Sur les pas de René RichardIn the Footsteps of René Richard
An ingratiating and unusual individual: following his heart, painter René Richard (1895-1982) spent the first half of his life in extreme survival conditions in the forest. The son of a Swiss immigrant who had settled in Alberta, he lived among the Cree Indians and the Inuits of northern Canada. In 1927, he went to Paris to study painting and met the Canadian artist Clarence Gagnon. Returning home in 1930, he resumed his life as a trapper in Manitoba. In 1938, he settled in Baie Saint-Paul, where he would remain for the rest of his life painting his light-filled part figurative, part expressionist landscape canvases.
Canada - 2003 - 48 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour
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