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MARC-AURÈLE FORTIN, A.R.C.A.PAYSAGE À STE-ROSE (MY HOME)oil on masonitesigned 36 ins x 48 ins; 91.4 cms x 121.9 cms Provenance:Private Collection, QuebecLiterature:Fortin, National Gallery of Canada (exhibition catalogue), 1964, page 4.M.A. Fortin, Verdun Cultural Centre (exhibition catalogue), 1968, page 5.Dennis Reid, A Concise History of Canadian Painting, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 106, page 216.Note:After a five year absence from Quebec spent studying art in Chicago, New York and Boston, Marc-Aurèle Fortin returned to Sainte-Rose, the village of his birth, in 1914.  From 1920, Fortin's work frequently revisited the landscape around Sainte-Rose, seeing it as an oasis of unspoiled countryside and an inexhaustible trigger for his visual imagination.  These works are both humble and imaginative; traditional and unique. Fortin was an accomplished draughtsman who became an extraordinary painter of landscapes.  The purposefully colouristic execution of these views was accomplished by using oil pigments straight from the tube rather than mixing them on his palette.  Energetic and with an underlying sense of urgency, Fortin's landscapes were among the most innovative to be found in Montreal at the time, as Dennis Reid has remarked.Paysage à Ste-Rose (My Home) is an exquisite example of the scenes with which the artist documented the topography of the countryside surrounding his beloved Sainte-Rose.  In addition to illustrating the vivid colours typical of Fortin's best work, it is also a deeply personal work in which the artist allows us to see into the solitary world in which he worked for almost forty years.