Lise Gervais

1933-1998

Born in St. Césaire, Québec, she is the only daughter of a family of three. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Montreal under Stanley Cosgrove and Jacques de Tonnancour (Painting) and under Louis Archambault (sculpture). She travelled to Europe in 1958 where she visited Spain and viewed particularly the drawings and paintings of Goya.

After a number of group shows in Quebec, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Chicoutimi, Granby, Sherbrooke and Ottawa, she held her first solo show at Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal, in February of 1961; she exhibited there again in 1962 and in Toronto at the Moos Gallery.

Spanning overa period of sixteen years during the 60's and 70's, she taught at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, at Université du Québec à Montréal and at Concordia University.

In 1967, she exhibited at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec and also at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. In 1970, she had two other shows, one at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal and another in Paris, at the Musée Rodin.

In 1983-84, she was elected president of the Conseil des Artistes-Peintres du Québec. While living in Montréal, she spent most of her time in the solitude of the woods and lakes in the Laurentides, Québec. She died at age 65.

Collections:

- National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON)
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, QC)
- Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal (Montreal, QC)
- Albright-Knox Museum (Buffalo, NY. USA)
- Musée d’art de Joliette (Joliette, QC)
- Confederation Centre Art Gallery  (Charlottetown, PEI)
- Université de Montréal (Montreal, QC)
- Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
- Queens University (Kingston, ON)
- Hart House, University of Toronto (Toronto, ON)
- York University (Toronto, ON)
- Power Corporation of Canada (Montreal, QC)
- Samuel Bronfman Collection (Montreal, QC)
- Charles Delloye Collection (Paris, France)

Affiliations:

- Conseil des Artistes-Peintres du Québec
- Canadian Society for Education through Art
- Quebec Modern Group