Lot 211: Bruneau, Kittie, RCA (1929 - ), Canadian; "Bourrasque" 33/66, 1978, block print, framed under glass Born in Montreal in 1929, she studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1947, and then the Montreal School of Art in 1949. Working as both a professional dancer and painter, she left for Paris in 1950 and would not return to Québec for eight years. That voyage was the first in a long journey that would take her to the four corners of the Earth. From Japan to Peru, India to Morocco; for Kittie Bruneau, cultural encounters is the perfect complement to creativity. Her leitmotifis elementally dictated by an unabashed gestural freedom and the use of dazzling colours. Kittie Bruneau’s work is not imprisoned by any stylistic straitjacket.