LOUIS BELZILE

"Untitled: Abstract", signed and dated (19)66 lower left, oil on canvas, 50.2 x 61cm (19 3/4 x 24in); Provenance: a gift from the artist to Professor Theophile (Phil) Joseph Casaubon, former director of Trois-Pistoles Summer School U.W.O.; by bequest to the present private collection, London; Louis Belzile, Canadian, 1929-2019, member of the Plasticiens group in Montreal and a leading figure of geometric abstraction painting in Quebec; his works can be found in many important collections in Quebec and across the country including the the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal