The Quebec painter Louise Robert died overnight from Sunday to Monday at the Sacré-Coeur hospital in Montreal, the Galerie Simon Blais announced on Tuesday. She was 80 years old.
Born in Montreal in 1941, pharmacist by training, Louise Robert began her career as an autodidact in the 1970s. Playing on the relationship to writing from her first works, she explored this process all her life, because poetry and painting went hand in hand for her.
Louise Robert has participated in several exhibitions in institutions such as the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, in 1980, Quebec House Gallery, in New York, in 1983 and the Canadian Cultural Center, in Paris, in 1983. The Musée d’art de Joliette devoted a retrospective to him in 2003.
Her last exhibition at the Galerie Simon Blais, which represented her in Montreal, was entitled “Le temps,now”, in the spring of 2022.
“Recent paintings and drawings burst onto the walls. You can read the words, the sentences, if you want. Or think it’s about colors, matter. Reread them with “the eyes of the heart”. Don’t see them anymore. Like one wants. But let it be said: “the time, now”. Like another possible season, lively, almost crazy. Where “the smell of time” takes its time. That of life, nothing else,” Louise Robert described her work at the time.
She is survived by her spouse of the past 44 years, Lise Lamarche, as well as “friends, loved ones, artists, studio neighbours, collectors and art lovers whom she had brought together in a loyal community over the years. years,” said Galerie Simon Blais.