Alfred Pellan
Lehmann, Maria Rosa![Alfred Pellan](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/460/46051768/CHSBZCOP0346051768.jpg)
For fourteen years in the early twentieth century, Alfred Pellan (1906-1988) acted as a conduit between Canadian and European art. In 1926, at age twenty, he left Quebec for Paris, where he absorbed all that the city's avant-garde had to offer: he met Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, and Fernand Léger, and he viewed a 1938 Surrealist exhibition that was a "transcendent" experience. Over the next several decades, Pellan divided his time between Paris ...