Kittie Bruneau

Kittie Bruneau (12 October 1929 – 6 April 2021) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.

Life and work Bruneau was born in Montreal on 12 October 1929. She studied at École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1946 to 1949. Following her studies, she travelled to Paris, where she spent the next ten years. While in Europe, she danced in the corps de ballet for the Ballets de Rouen, and the Ballets de l’étoile of Maurice Béjart. At that time, the Province of Quebec evicted all residents in order to depopulate the island. Her island studio is preserved as part of the Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park. Her work aligns with surrealism, with some aspects of automatism. Other artists who explore this territory include in Quebec, Alfred Pellan and Jean Dallaire; and internationally, Joan Miró, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky. Canada Council Art Bank, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

Bruneau became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Artist books 1980 - D’îles et d’ailes (avec poésies de Leonard Cohen, Claude Haeffely, Michaël La Chance, Jacques Renaud, ill. Kittie Bruneau), Montréal, Éditions de la Marotte. np. BNQ|CA/137 RES 1974 - Ah ouiche — t'en — plain, poésies de Françoise Bujold, avec des pointes sèches de Kittie Bruneau, Guilde Graphique. 1974 - Entre chien et loup (poésies de Michaël La Chance avec ill. Kittie Bruneau), Montréal, La Guilde Graphique, 9 pl. BNQ|RES/CA/38; SIGIRD| 02-1143038. 1973 - La Clef de l'envers (poésies de Michaël La Chance avec ill. Kittie Bruneau), Montréal, Éditions de la Marotte, n.p. BNQ|RES/CE/19