Michel DesRochers - Magnifieke Aquarel "afgemeerde vissersboten" gesigneerd Michel desRochers (1938- - Verkocht

Kunstenaar :  Michel desRochers ( Quebec 1938-) 
Titel/Voorstelling : " afgemeerde vissersboten  " 
Datering : omstreeks 1960
Medium / Techniek : aquarel op papier
Maten : 25 x 35 cm (aquarel) en 40 x 50 cm (ingelijst) 
Gesigneerd : rechtsonder
Conditie :  goed 

Michel Desrochers, was born in Joly de Lotbiniere, a small village near Quebec City, Canada, on 1 March 1938. After studies at College in Rouyn, Quebec, in 1957 Michel went to Toronto to study drawing and painting part-time, at the Ontario College of Art. During this time he worked in the Art Department of Simpson-Sears, learning fashion art and graphics and where he remained for the next five years also studying sculpture with Augustin Filipovic (1931-1998), a professor from the Academy of Rome. In 1963, Michel travelled to Europe for a year and on his return to Canada became Art Director in a department store in Quebec City. In 1968 he returned to Toronto, having married, and worked in graphics and advertising on his own account until 1969. Michel then travelled to England, painting full-time in East Anglia and taking part in many groups shows and major exhibitions, notably the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibitions in London with one-man shows at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk; Medici Gallery, Old Bond Street, London and being invited by Lady Fermoy to have a one-man show at her Fermoy Gallery gallery in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. He also had several solo exhibitions at Woodbridge Gallery and at the then newly established Municipal Art Gallery in Bury St Edmund's, both in Suffolk, to which he had been appointed to be member of the committee. Many of his works were purchased by collectors, including by the Maritime Museum at Greenwich, London with commissions from Sir Nicholas Cayzer and Sir Edmund Joly de Lotbiniere, both Suffolk residents, with the Borough of Bury St Edmund's commissioned and purchased various topographical works including 'Windmill' (1970). In 1980 he painted watercolours in France of the local scenes around the area of Hérault, and was invited to participate in a group show of watercolours of major French artists at Galerie Feille, Clairac, in the Lot et Garonne. Purchased works form part of some major European collections, including by Madame Danielle Mitterand, the wife of the late President of France. In September 1987, Michel and his wife Marion, returned to Canada and settled in Sooke, British Columbia and Michel has shown several times at the annual Fine Art Show in Sooke, and in 1995 a series of paintings were purchased by Pacific Coast Savings for their newly constructed branch.