Lot 23: Jean-Paul Armand Mousseau 1927 - 1991 Canadian

Jean-Paul Armand Mousseau 1927 - 1991 Canadian fibreglass and coloured resin light fixture Suspended Lamp 32 x 19 x 18 inches 81.3 x 48.3 x 45.7 centimeters signed and dated 1960 Literature:Pierre Landry et al, Mousseau, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 1996, similar works reproduced pages 110, 111 and 112 Provenance:Estate of Andrée Lavigne-Trudeau, Montreal Towards the end of the 1950s, Jean-Paul Mousseau took a new direction in his artistic approach. After 20 years of painting, Mousseau wanted to go beyond the limits of the opacity of paint and the support of canvas. This decision was certainly very audacious for the artist, and the innovations that resulted were impressively modern and in sync with the cultural revolution of the time. Mousseau became involved in different collaborative projects: set design for the theatre, architectural murals and design art in schools, metro stations, corporate and government buildings and restaurants, to name only a few. Throughout his career, from the Automatist period until the multidisciplinary projects of the 1960s, the notion of light had always been at the core of his work, probably more so than the notion of space. The light fixtures Mousseau created during this time are an integral part of his creative and modern energy and his will to explore even more the artistic possibilities of light and colour. The fibreglass and coloured resin light fixtures became true light sculptures, combining the utilitarian and the aesthetic.