Jean LeFébure was one of youngest artists associated with the Quebec post-war abstract movements. In 1949 he studied at the École de Beaux-Arts under Paul-Émile Borduas. Three years later, at age twenty-two, LeFébure exhibited with Borduas and his contemporaries, including Marcel Barbeau, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Marcelle Ferron and Jean Paul Riopelle. Dating to 1964, “Abstraction”, demonstrates a shift in LeFébure’s approach from the impasto borrowed from Borduas to a flatter composition consisting of planes of colour, reminiscent of the work of Les Plasticiens.
