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Paul-Emile Borduas (1905-1960) - Untitled No. 6 Canada 35c Stamp issued 1981 Museum of Contemporary Art - Montreal Canada |
Borduas was the leader of the Automatiste group of artists in Montreal Canada that became prominent in the 1940s. These artists supported the theory of surrealist automatism - this the the type of "automatic" drawing that is developed when you do not impose self-censorship during the drawing process. Montreal was a conservative place at that time, and Borduas eventually moved to New York City and Paris in the 1950s before his untimely death in 1960 from a heart attack.
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