Jean Paul Lemieux - Québec City, QC, Canada
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N 46° 48.772 W 071° 12.203
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A monument honoring Quebec painter Jean Paul Lemieux is located on the Cote de Montagne on the hill between the upper and parts of Quebec City.
Waymark Code: WMWZDV
Location: Québec, Canada
Date Posted: 11/04/2017
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The monument to Jean Paul Lemieux contains a life size bronze bust of the artist on top of a 6' tall granite base. The bust depicts Lemieux from the neck up. His hair is combed back and he is looking straight ahead.
The front of the base is inscribed:
LA VILLE DE QUÉBEC
REND HOMMAGE À L'UN DE SES FILS
LE PEINTRE JEAN PAUL LEMIEUX
(1904-1990)
CONTRIBUANT AINSI À RAPPELER
À LA MÉMOIRE DES QUÉBÉCOIS ET
DES QUÉBÉCOISES CE GRAND ARTISTE
DE RÉPUTATION INTERNATIONALE.
ELLE REMERCIE CEUX QUI ONT
PERMIS LA RÉALISATION
DE CE BUSTE, UNE OEUVRE
DE L'ARTISTE PAUL LANCZ.
INAUGURATION LE 12 NOVEMBRE 1999
THE CITY OF QUEBEC
PAYS TRIBUTE TO ONE OF HIS SON
THE PAINTER JEAN PAUL LEMIEUX
(1904-1990)
HELPING TO RECALL
IN MEMORY OF QUEBECERS AND
QUEBECERS THIS GREAT ARTIST
INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION.
IT THANKS THOSE WHO HAVE
PERMIT THE REALIZATION
FROM THIS BUST, A WORK
BY ARTIST PAUL LANCZ.
INAUGURATION NOVEMBER 12, 1999
The right side of the base contains a reproduction of one of Jean Paul Lemieux's paintings - "Fete-Dieu À Quebéc"
Jean Paul Lemieux was born on November 18, 1904 in Quebec City, QC, Canada. He studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal before traveling to France 1929 to study and art. In 1934 he bagan a teaching career at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. In 1937, he moved to Quebec City and taught at the École des Beaux-Arts de Québec.
Jean Paul Lemieux was awarded the Louis-Philippe Hébert prize in 1971 and the Molson Prize for the Canada Council for the Arts in 1974. He was elected a Companion of the Order of Canada and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy. He died in Quebec City on December 7, 1990 and was posthumously made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 1997.