{"id":18426,"date":"2017-03-09T19:38:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/?p=18426"},"modified":"2017-03-09T19:49:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:49:55","slug":"new-acquisitions-andre-bertounesque-sarah-fecteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/new-acquisitions-andre-bertounesque-sarah-fecteau\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW ACQUISITIONS : Andr\u00e9 Bertounesque, Sarah Fecteau"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18427\" style=\"width: 808px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18427\" class=\"wp-image-18427 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2.jpg\" alt=\"01\" width=\"798\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2.jpg 798w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2-640x522.jpg 640w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2-750x612.jpg 750w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-2-350x287.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sans titre, 20&#215;24<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Andr\u00e9 Bertounesque<\/strong> is a Quebec painter of French birth, born May 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 1937 in Sainte-Livrade (Lot-et-Garonne).\u00a0 He died on September 21<sup>st\u00a0<\/sup>2005 in Laval, Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Already passionate about art, <strong>Andr\u00e9 Bertounesque<\/strong> arrives in Quebec in 1951 where he will hold a variety of jobs all the while cultivating his passion for oil painting.\u00a0 A self-taught artist, Bertounesque sets up a makeshift studio in the back of his hairdressing salon where he spends his downtime painting.<\/p>\n<p>That is where he starts his career as a painter.\u00a0 Bertounesque begins selling his paintings to his customers who are rightfully impressed by the talent this sensitive, unassuming man.\u00a0 He is quickly recognized for his mastery of light and the soft and intimate scenes he depicts.\u00a0 The richness of his oil paintings quickly allows him a recognition that will not falter all through his prolific career and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Bertounesque loved women and his work from the 1970s and 1980s shows it through portraits, nudes, seascapes and scenes of introspective peace and quiet that show the man\u2019s inner tranquility.<\/p>\n<p>He also was a proud emissary of his native land\u2019s southern countryside.\u00a0 Provence, its light and its colours became his favourite subject taking the spectator to a soft, luminous universe.<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9 Bertounesque\u2019s work is now a part of Quebec\u2019s artistic heritage and is present in major galleries and collections all over the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18429\" style=\"width: 689px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02site.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18429\" class=\"wp-image-18429 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02site.jpg\" alt=\"02+site\" width=\"679\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02site.jpg 679w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02site-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02site-640x783.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Que la beaut\u00e9 soit!, 48&#215;36<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Sarah Fecteau<\/strong> is a Quebec artist born in Thetford Mines on August 24th 1983.<\/p>\n<p>As a young girl, Fecteau develops a passion for drawing and a dedication to detail that would characterize her work up to the present.\u00a0 She discovers the work of hyperrealist American artist Steve Hanks and starts painting with acrylics in a style that, while reminiscent of her spiritual mentor, show all of her feminine and Latin side as well.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of nineteen, Sarah Fecteau decides that art will be her life calling and becomes a professional artist.\u00a0 At that moment begins a steady and undeniable rise to success in her adopted region of Monteregie where Sarah Fecteau becomes one of the favourites at art festivals and symposiums.\u00a0 Her hyperrealist style of painting reaches new art lovers every time she participates in one of those events.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the 2000 decade, Sarah Fecteau begins her cross-Canada career by having her work on display at many a Canadian major gallery.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, she is chosen to be a part of a Quebec delegation at a major art event at the Caroussel du Louvres in Paris where her work garners the attention of European art lovers.<\/p>\n<p>Still in her early thirties, Sarah Fecteau is well representative of the new generation of artists and her growing success seem to promise a long and fruitful career for this sensitive artist all over the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18431\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18431\" class=\"wp-image-18431 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04.jpg\" alt=\"04\" width=\"800\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04.jpg 800w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04-768x1241.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04-634x1024.jpg 634w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04-640x1034.jpg 640w, https:\/\/balcondart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04-750x1212.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1. Oups!, 16\u00d78 2. Casimir, 16\u00d78 3.Beaut\u00e9 sauvage, 24\u00d712 4. 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