LISETTE SAVARIA (1947 - ) FLUER DE PRINTEMPS porcelain, height 6.5" -- 16.5 cm., incised signature, dated 1990 and numbered 13/2 - 8/14 Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist Note: LISETTE SAVARIA (1947 - ) "I am determined to create a vibrant and beautiful object that will touch in its expression the heart and stimulate the spirit." - Lisette Savaria - Quebec artist, Lisette Savaria, has gained international recognition for her artistic excellence in porcelains as well as in paintings. Lisette Savaria was born in McMasterville, Quebec in 1947. After her husband's death in 1975, she turned her focus on art. She studied at the École des arts Appliqués, in Montréal, Quebec, from 1976 to 1979, as well as painting and sculpture in Mont St. Hilaire with Jordi Bonet and ceramics with Maurice Savoie in Longueuil. Savaria opened her own studio in 1979, and worked on techniques of sculpting, engraving and painting, producing porcelains with window-like openings. She went to France for one year in 1988 to attend the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris and the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. ?Savaria has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, France, Norway and Japan. Her works are part of major public and private international collections. The federal government has also presented her porcelain as gifts to visiting heads of state and prominent dignitaries, including Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princes Takamado of Japan, Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York, and His Majesty King Fahd bi n Abdul Aziz al Saud, Riyadh of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Lisette Savaria lives in Mirabel, Quebec. Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections Bell Canada Cabinet of the Lieutenant Governor of Ottawa Cabinet of the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec City of Mirabel, QC Claridge Collection, Montréal Dignitary of Thailand Energie-Cardio, QC Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON His Excellency Mr. and Mrs. Sousuke Uno, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan His Excellency Paul Biya, President of the Republic of Cameroon His Majesty King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Loto-QC Manufacture Nationale de porcelaine de Sèvres, France McDonald Foundation, Toronto Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico Mr. and Mrs. Abdou Diouf, President of the Republic of Senegal Mr. and Mrs. Francois Mitterand, President of France Mrs. Cheiki Cissohko, Minister of Environmental Protection, Senegal Mrs. Marie Sair Mbody, Mnister of Health, Senegal M. Niax Nack, Mnister of Foreign Affairs, India Nishii, Tokyo, Japan Nissin Food Products CCL Ltd, Japan Noboru Takeshita, prime minister of Japan Quebec Delegation, Tokyo, Japan Senyu Corporation, Japan SNC - Lavalin, Algeria Société-St-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal The Green Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Takamado, Japan Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York Selected Solo Exhibitions 2013 Espace Galerie Mylène Blanchet, Rosemère, Quebec 2011 Musée d'Art Contemporain des Laurentides, St-Jérôme, QC 2011 Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2010 Between Earth and Sky, Prince Takamado, Gallery of the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan Galerie À l'Avant, Montreal, QC 2009 Parties d'un Tout, Centre d'exposition de Val-David, QC 2007 Villa des Arts Liliane Bruneau, Rencontre, Ste Agathe des Monts, QC 2003 Ville de Ste-Rose, Laval, QC 2001 Galerie Sainte-Rose et Antiquités, Laval, QC 1999 Espace Parcours, Montréal, QC 1995 Espace Parcours, Montréal, QC Gallery of the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan Niche Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yokohama Art Gallery, Bashamichi, Yokohama, Japan 1990 Galerie du Manoir Rouville Campbell, Ville de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC 1989 Galerie Franklin Silverstone, Montréal, QC The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, ? Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON 1988 Galerie du Manoir Rouville Campbell, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC 1987 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON 1986 The Beckett Fine Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON 1985 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON 1984 Galerie Wells, Ottawa, ON 1981 Galerie de la Centrale d'Artisanat du Québec, Montréal, QC 1980 Galerie Mena'sen, North-Hatley, QC Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 Empty Bowls, collaboration between the Unitarian Church of Montreal and the Dorshei Emet Congretation, Montreal, QC 2012 Collection selon les Impatients, Espace Création Loto-Québec, Montreal, QC 2011 Matter of Clay III, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London, ON La Céramique au féminin, Galerie Centre Bonsecours, Montréal 2009 Techniques en art céramique, Concordia University, Montréal 2008 Noce de Porcelaine, Galerie Gaétan Beaudin, 1001 Pots, Val-David, QC Le Classicisme revisité, Centre d'Exposition Bonsecours, Montréal, QC 2008 Muse Textile, Galerie du Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal, QC West Palm Beach 3, Galerie Créa, Florida 2007 Salon des métiers d'art du Québec, Signature Laurentides, Montréal, QC Excellence, Signature Laurentides, Centre d'exposition, Maison du village, Val-David, QC 2006 SAVOIR-re-FAIRE LA TRADITION, Musée des maîtres et artisans du QC,? Ville St-Laurent, QC Le bienfait de la terre, Galerie Gaïa, Montréal, QC Série limitée, art et matières, Montréal, QC QC-Japan, Les Sculpturales, Passage d'artistes, St-Sauveur des Monts, QC Villa des Arts Liliane Bruneau, Ste-Agathe des Monts, QC Invited Artist by Mme Lise Thibault, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, St. Hyppolyte, QC 2005 50 ans de création en métiers d'art au QC, Montréal, QC Encan d'aeuvres de la Fondation du Musée d'Art Contemporain, Laurentides, QC Galerie des Métiers d'art, Montréal, Appropriation SIDIM, Série limitée, art et matières, Montréal, QC Galerie d'art Berick, Bromont, QC QC-Japan, Les Sculpturales, Passage d'artistes, St-Sauveur des Monts, QC Villa des Arts Liliane Bruneau, Ste-Agathe des Monts, QC 2004 Villa des Arts Liliane Bruneau, Ste-Agathe des Monts, QC Galerie des Métiers d'Art de Montréal, Montréal, QC Galerie des Métiers d'art Montréal, Galerie Madeleine C., Longueuil, QC Galerie du Haut-Richelieu, Saint-Jean sur le Richelieu, QC Galerie Madeleine C., Longueuil, QC 2003 Galerie des Esprits créatifs, White River Junction, Vermont, US Encan Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, Montréal, QC Encan de la Fondation des Maladies du Caeur du QC, Montréal, QC 2002 Galerie des Esprits créatifs, White River Junction, Vermont, US Leopold Gallery, "Kansas City meets Quebec", Kansas City, US 2001 Encan Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, Montréal, QC 2000 Encan de la Fondation des Maladies du Caeur du QC, Montréal, QC 1999 American Craft Museum, New York, US 1998 American Craft Museum, New York, US Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON 1995 Georges R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, ON Rencontre VIII, Saint-Jean-sur-le-Richelieu, QC 1994 Claridge Collection, Pearson Airport, Toronto Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON 1990 Franklin Silverstone Gallery, Toronto, ON Galerie du Manoir Rouville-Campbell, Ville de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway Franklin Silverstone Gallery at the Kunst Klubben Gallery, Oslo, Norway Biennale Internationale, Musée National de la Céramique Adrien-Dubouché, Limoges, France 1989 Botanical Gardens, Japanese Pavilion, Montreal, QC 1987 Art Auction, Exhibition at the Jerry Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ACC FAIR de l'AMERICAN CRAFTS COUNCIL, West-Springfield, US Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Montréal, QC 1985 Maruzen Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 1984 Galerie d'Art du Parc, Première Biennale nationale de Céramique, Trois-Rivières, QC 1976 Maison Chevalier, Place Royale, Ville de Québec, QC Selected Awards and Grants 2011 Bourse du Fonds culturel international du CLD Mirabel, Première lauréate 2010 Traveling Grant to Japan, Conseil des arts et lettres du Quebec 2008 Research Grant from Conseil des arts et lettres du Quebec 2006, 2003, 2001 Grant from the Société de développement des industries culturelles, ? ( SODEC ), QC 1998 First Prize in Sculpture, Rencontre III, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC 1995 QIT International Grant, Tracy, QC, Japan Grant from the Government of Canada, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Canada, Japan Grant from the Fondation George et Helen Vari, Paris Grant from theCanadian Contemporary Ceramics, Oslo, Norway Grant from the Oslo International Ceramics Symposium, Oslo, Norway 1987 Certificate of Excellence in ceramics, USA MAJOR ART COMPETITION, New York, NY 1986, 1981 Research Grant from the Quebec Minister of Cultural Affairs 1984 Prix d'excellence, Canadian Craft Show, Toronto, ON Selected Links lisettesavaria.com Lisette Savaria video
LISETTE SAVARIA (1947 - ) FLEUR DE PRINTEMPS porcelain, height 6.5" -- 16.5 cm., incised signature, dated 1990 and numbered 13/13 - 9/14 Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist Note: LISETTE SAVARIA (1947 - ) "I am determined to create a vibrant and beautiful object that will touch in its expression the heart and stimulate the spirit." - Lisette Savaria - Quebec artist, Lisette Savaria, has gained international recognition for her artistic excellence in porcelains as well as in paintings. Lisette Savaria was born in McMasterville, Quebec in 1947. After her husband's death in 1975, she turned her focus on art. She studied at the École des arts Appliqués, in Montréal, Quebec, from 1976 to 1979, as well as painting and sculpture in Mont St. Hilaire with Jordi Bonet and ceramics with Maurice Savoie in Longueuil. Savaria opened her own studio in 1979, and worked on techniques of sculpting, engraving and painting, producing porcelains with window-like openings. She went to France for one year in 1988 to attend the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris and the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. ?Savaria has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, France, Norway and Japan. Her works are part of major public and private international collections. The federal government has also presented her porcelain as gifts to visiting heads of state and prominent dignitaries, including Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princes Takamado of Japan, Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York, and His Majesty King Fahd bi n Abdul Aziz al Saud, Riyadh of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Lisette Savaria lives in Mirabel, Quebec. Selected Corporate, Private and Public Collections Bell Canada Cabinet of the Lieutenant Governor of Ottawa Cabinet of the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec City of Mirabel, QC Claridge Collection, Montréal Dignitary of Thailand Energie-Cardio, QC Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON His Excellency Mr. and Mrs. Sousuke Uno, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan His Excellency Paul Biya, President of the Republic of Cameroon His Majesty King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Loto-QC Manufacture Nationale de porcelaine de Sèvres, France McDonald Foundation, Toronto Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico Mr. and Mrs. Abdou Diouf, President of the Republic of Senegal Mr. and Mrs. Francois Mitterand, President of France Mrs. Cheiki Cissohko, Minister of Environmental Protection, Senegal Mrs. Marie Sair Mbody, Mnister of Health, Senegal M. Niax Nack, Mnister of Foreign Affairs, India Nishii, Tokyo, Japan Nissin Food Products CCL Ltd, Japan Noboru Takeshita, prime minister of Japan Quebec Delegation, Tokyo, Japan Senyu Corporation, Japan SNC - Lavalin, Algeria Société-St-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal The Green Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Takamado, Japan Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York Selected Solo Exhibitions 2013 Espace Galerie Mylène Blanchet, Rosemère, Quebec 2011 Musée d'Art Contemporain des Laurentides, St-Jérôme, QC 2011 Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2010 Between Earth and Sky, Prince Takamado, Gallery of the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan Galerie À l'Avant, Montreal, QC 2009 Parties d'un Tout, Centre d'exposition de Val-David, QC 2007 Villa des Arts Liliane Bruneau, Rencontre, Ste Agathe des Monts, QC 2003 Ville de Ste-Rose, Laval, QC 2001 Galerie Sainte-Rose et Antiquités, Laval, QC 1999 Espace Parcours, Montréal, QC 1995 Espace Parcours, Montréal, QC Gallery of the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan Niche Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Yokohama Art Gallery, Bashamichi, Yokohama, Japan 1990 Galerie du Manoir Rouville Campbell, Ville de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC 1989 Galerie Franklin Silverstone, Montréal, QC The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, ? Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON 1988 Galerie du Manoir Rouville Campbell, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC 1987 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON 1986 The Beckett Fine Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON 1985 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON 1984 Galerie Wells, Ottawa, ON 1981 Galerie de la Centrale d'Artisanat du Québec, Montréal, QC 1980 Galerie Mena'sen, North-Hatley, QC Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 Empty Bowls, collaboration between the Unitarian Church of Montreal and the Dorshei Emet Congretation, Montreal, QC 2012 Collection selon les Impatients, Espace Création Loto-Québec, Montreal, QC 2011 Matter of Clay III, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London, ON La Céramique au féminin, Galerie Centre Bonsecours, Montréal 2009 Techniques en art céramique, Concordia University, Montréal 2008 Noce de Porcelaine, Galerie Gaétan Beaudin, 1001 Pots, Val-David, QC Le Classicisme revisité, Centre d'Exposition Bonsecours, Montréal, QC 2008 Muse Textile, Galerie du Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal, QC West Palm Beach 3, Galerie Créa, Florida 2007 Salon des métiers d'art du Québec, Signature Laurentides, Montréal, QC Excellence, Signature Laurentides, Centre d'exposition, Maison du village, Val-David, QC 2006 SAVOIR-re-FAIRE LA TRADITION, Musée des maîtres et artisans du QC,? Ville St-Laurent, QC Le bienfait de la terre, Galerie Gaïa, Montréal, QC Série limitée, art et matières, Montréal, QC QC-Japan, Les Sculpturales, Passage d'artistes, St-Sauveur des Monts, QC Villa des Arts Liliane Bruneau, Ste-Agathe des Monts, QC Invited Artist by Mme Lise Thibault, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, St. Hyppolyte, QC 2005 50 ans de création en métiers d'art au QC, Montréal, QC Encan d'aeuvres de la Fondation du Musée d'Art Contemporain, Laurentides, QC Galerie des Métiers d'art, Montréal, Appropriation SIDIM, Série limitée, art et matières, Montréal, QC Galerie d'art Berick, Bromont, QC QC-Japan, Les Sculpturales, Passage d'artistes, St-Sauveur des Monts, QC Villa des Arts Liliane Bruneau, Ste-Agathe des Monts, QC 2004 Villa des Arts Liliane Bruneau, Ste-Agathe des Monts, QC Galerie des Métiers d'Art de Montréal, Montréal, QC Galerie des Métiers d'art Montréal, Galerie Madeleine C., Longueuil, QC Galerie du Haut-Richelieu, Saint-Jean sur le Richelieu, QC Galerie Madeleine C., Longueuil, QC 2003 Galerie des Esprits créatifs, White River Junction, Vermont, US Encan Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, Montréal, QC Encan de la Fondation des Maladies du Caeur du QC, Montréal, QC 2002 Galerie des Esprits créatifs, White River Junction, Vermont, US Leopold Gallery, "Kansas City meets Quebec", Kansas City, US 2001 Encan Fondation Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, Montréal, QC 2000 Encan de la Fondation des Maladies du Caeur du QC, Montréal, QC 1999 American Craft Museum, New York, US 1998 American Craft Museum, New York, US Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON 1995 Georges R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, ON Rencontre VIII, Saint-Jean-sur-le-Richelieu, QC 1994 Claridge Collection, Pearson Airport, Toronto Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON 1990 Franklin Silverstone Gallery, Toronto, ON Galerie du Manoir Rouville-Campbell, Ville de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway Franklin Silverstone Gallery at the Kunst Klubben Gallery, Oslo, Norway Biennale Internationale, Musée National de la Céramique Adrien-Dubouché, Limoges, France 1989 Botanical Gardens, Japanese Pavilion, Montreal, QC 1987 Art Auction, Exhibition at the Jerry Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ACC FAIR de l'AMERICAN CRAFTS COUNCIL, West-Springfield, US Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Montréal, QC 1985 Maruzen Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 1984 Galerie d'Art du Parc, Première Biennale nationale de Céramique, Trois-Rivières, QC 1976 Maison Chevalier, Place Royale, Ville de Québec, QC Selected Awards and Grants 2011 Bourse du Fonds culturel international du CLD Mirabel, Première lauréate 2010 Traveling Grant to Japan, Conseil des arts et lettres du Quebec 2008 Research Grant from Conseil des arts et lettres du Quebec 2006, 2003, 2001 Grant from the Société de développement des industries culturelles, ? ( SODEC ), QC 1998 First Prize in Sculpture, Rencontre III, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC 1995 QIT International Grant, Tracy, QC, Japan Grant from the Government of Canada, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Canada, Japan Grant from the Fondation George et Helen Vari, Paris Grant from theCanadian Contemporary Ceramics, Oslo, Norway Grant from the Oslo International Ceramics Symposium, Oslo, Norway 1987 Certificate of Excellence in ceramics, USA MAJOR ART COMPETITION, New York, NY 1986, 1981 Research Grant from the Quebec Minister of Cultural Affairs 1984 Prix d'excellence, Canadian Craft Show, Toronto, ON Selected Links lisettesavaria.com Lisette Savaria video
