Jean Viens Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1929 - d. 2012

Come Jean was born January 8, 1929 in Montreal and died on 3 October 2012. Coming from a family of five children, he is the son of a musician father and an artist mother who was addicted to the art of drawing and painting. During his career as a painter, he painted landscapes scenes but also portraits. Not only to you he had a studio in Montreal that included fifteen painters he influenced some well-known artists including Quebec Lise Auger, André Langevin Bertuanesque, Lionel Laurenceau, Hervey le Breton, Denise Dion but also transfer in heritage the art of painting to his two daughters.

It is a path traced from birth Jean Come sign the work of a lifetime. Born into a family of five children and influenced by her mother, the same artist, the young man is initiated at an early age in the art of drawing. In elementary school we noticed her talent. In competitions, he won first place. In high school, college, Notre Dame, the young artist devoted himself to portraiture with a style and a characteristic depth of the era of the great masters of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. At seventeen, he heads the School of Fine Arts in Montreal.

During his stay at the school of Fine Arts during the forties, he will apply his techniques and his art free style. It's his meeting with artists like Iacurto, Narcisse Poirier and Leo Ayotte who has had some influence on his works. The latter having attended the workshop located a few doors from her parents. Around the age of twenty, in 1949, he enrolled in a portrait competition in Montreal where he produced a portrait of Minister Paul Sauvé. This oil painting won him first prize. The award, a grant from the Quebec government to perfect his art in Europe at the Academy of Montmartre France. He declined to return the award to his friend Normand Hudon cartoonist who finished second in the competition. He took the decision to marry Denise Biron, with whom he has three children. In 1965, then thirty-five years, at the request of the Canadian government, it represents it to Los Angeles where he exhibited his works. His works are award winning talk of them to Europe. A magnificent work is held in Italy in the Cathedral of Padre Pio.

Known for his work in religious character, he was the reluctant after going exhibit in France. Father of three children, he devoted himself to his art gallery of the street Jean Talon in Montreal where with fifteen young artists, they were filling requests for commercial works of major hotels and shops. He received very large orders from some religious communities but also individuals with private collections. Its personalized works, asked him to draw him into an amazing depth and took a big place in his artistic life. One of these orders was to paint twenty large format works for a private collection. We may also mention the fifteen works representing the Stations of the Cross in the church of Our Lady of Good Counsel of Otterburn Park.

Since, having developed an eye disease, he left his studio that bears his name to his three children. His condition deteriorated and he is now blind.