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Canadian artist (1924–2001)

Marcelle FerronGOQ RCA (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001) was a Canadian painter and stained glass artist, was one of the original 16 signatories of Paul-Émile Borduas's Refus global manifesto, and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene, associated with the Automatistes.^[1]

Early years

Ferron was born in Louiseville, Quebec on January 29, 1924.

Her brother Jacques Ferron and her sister Madeleine Ferron were both writers. She studied at the École des beaux-arts de Québec before dropping out, unsatisfied with the way the school's instructors addressed modern art.^[2]

Ferron was an early member of Paul-Émile Borduas's Automatistes art movement.

She signed the manifesto Refus global, a watershed event in the Quebec cultural scene, in 1948.^[3]

Work

In 1953, she moved to Paris, where she worked for 13 years in drawing and painting and was introduced to the art of stained glass, f