Marcel Barbeau

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Marcel Barbeau (1925-2016), "Amour, champagne et autres choses," 2000

acrylic on canvas, 71” x 71”

TrépanierBaer Presents: Marcel Barbeau 

Dance Break 

Let’s all take a long deep collective breath, and another, as the weight of winter and COVID isolation leaves our spirits, and as the spring light lingers in the western sky. The evening  breeze is warmer now, gently forecasting better times ahead.  

Marcel Barbeau’s Amour, champagne et autre choses ( Love, Champagne and Other Things)  is the perfect COVID-restrictions-loosening, life-affirming painting.  Full  of colour, rhythm and vibrancy,  you’re sure to  feel light on your feet when you see it; think Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. 

And just to keep the energy moving, Barbeau’s magnificent  Escale dansante  (Dance Break)   painted  in 2013 when Barbeau was 88 years old is a tour de force.  It’s hard to image that at  88 years old,  Barbeau - frail and ill -  could hang on to his deep love of life and make such a spirited, rhythmical, life-affirming work. A reminder to us all, that in the face of adversity, of whatever kind, one can always find beauty.