Jacques Hurtubise
(1939 - 2014)
Artwork from the 1980s
JACQUES HURTUBISE
Long Beach
serigraph
signed, titled, dated 1980 and numbered 18/40
21 x 36 ins ( 53.3 x 91.4 cms )
JACQUES HURTUBISE
Splash Sept Cinq Zero
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1980 lower left; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
30.5 x 40 ins ( 77.5 x 101.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $15,000.00 - $20,000.00
Price Realized $16,800.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
JACQUES HURTUBISE
Untitled Abstraction
pastel, pencil and ink on paper
signed and dated 1980 lower middle; dated 1980 to the gallery label on the reverse
11 x 14 ins ( 27.9 x 35.6 cms ) ( sheet )
JACQUES HURTUBISE
Backsplash Rose
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated 1982 lower left; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
36 x 42 ins ( 91.4 x 106.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $14,000.00 - $18,000.00
Price Realized $18,000.00
Sale date: June 9th 2021
JACQUES HURTUBISE
Rose Slush
oil on canvas (diptych)
signed and dated 1982 lower centre; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
40 x 60 ins ( 101.6 x 152.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $25,000.00 - $35,000.00
Price Realized $28,800.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2021
JACQUES HURTUBISE
Oeil de Chimère II
acrylic on paper, laid on canvas
signed, titled and dated 1986
20 x 26 ins ( 50.8 x 66 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $5,750.00
Sale date: November 23rd 2017
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J. Hurtubise Biography
(1939 - 2014)
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts there under Albert Dumouchel, Jacques de Tonnancour and Jean Simard. In 1958 he won a prize at the Montreal Spring Exhibition, and in 1960 the Max Beckman scholarship to study in New York City. He held his first solo show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1961 and subsequently held solo shows in Montreal, Toronto and New York City.
A non-objective painter his early abstract expressionistic paintings were noted by the Montreal Gazette in 1961 as follows, “Youthful experimentation and even bravado … brilliantly colourful and expansive.” Kay Kritzwiser during his joint exhibition with Marcel Barbeau in 1965 noted, “Hurtubise is more included to let his work read as landscape than as optical experiments. He uses colours in the same big areas but less impersonally. He places a soft mauve circle on black, with a thin white highlight, and the effect is somehow feminine. He makes rough black circles loom out of black background separated only by a tiny square of pale green.”
In 1965 he won first prize in the Province of Quebec competition and by 1966 he had attracted attention in New York City during his solo showing at the East Hapmton Gallery whose exhibition sheet carried the following note on his work, “His hard-edge paintings bear no resemblance to the well-known Canadians in this field, such as Barbeau, Molinari, or Tousignant. They are figure-ground, 2-colour abstractions. The jagged, all-over forms set up powerful vibrations that have an impact of shock.”
He is represented in the following collections: Quebec Provincial Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and many others. He was a resident artist for Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, 1967. He lived in Montreal.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979
