Dessins et tableaux

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• Fonds: Marcel Parizeau fonds, 1917-1955
•    Series: Dessins et tableaux, 1917-1955

People

• Marcel Parizeau (creator)
• Marcel Parizeau (archive creator)

Title

Dessins et tableaux

Dates of creation

1917-1955

Level of archival description

Série 1

Extent and Medium

• 179 dessins et reproductions
• 13 oeuvres d'art
• 6 cahiers de croquis
• 9 photographies
• 8 estampes
• 3 documents textuels
• 1 cahier de notes de cours

Scope and Content

Series I consists of sketches, drawings and paintings, mostly created by Parizeau. From the period he spent in Europe (1923-1933), there are 11 student drawings in the standard presentation format of the École des Beaux-arts de Paris, a volume of course notes, as well as unidentified drawings, sketchbooks and paintings of primarily buildings and landscapes executed in Paris and during his travels in France. Drawings relating to Parizeau's architectural career in Montreal are represented in a number of independant projects, including a small chapel beside the St. Lawrence River, a pair of two-storey cabin-cottages outside of Montreal, and several residences in the city. The documents are mostly original preliminary studies with some reproductions of working drawings. It should be noted that there are also photographs of exterior details of the Laroque Residence and the Jarry Residence in documents CO2 in Series II. Reproductions of designs for worker housing by French architect Eugène Beaudoin in 1938 perhaps give a clue to Parizeau's relatively early employment of modernist forms. A residence in Baie D'Urfé is unlikely to be connected to Parizeau because its date, ca. 1955, is a decade after his death.

Parizeau's concern with furniture and interior design is represented in the Archive with many lively perspective sketches in colour, and elevation and plan studies of several kinds of rooms and types of furniture. Some preliminary drawings for interiors were grouped with the Gillow house in Ville Mont-Royal, and the Walter Downs Residence in Montreal.

The artworks by Parizeau consist of paintings and drawings of landscapes, buildings, still lifes and figure studies on loose sheets and in bound sketchbooks. These works are executed in a variety of media, including pencil, coloured pencil, watercolour on paper, and oil paint on masonite panels. Studies of buildings in Brittany and Paris are the subjects in three small sketchbooks, while larger spiral-bound drawing books contain some architectural plans, elevations and details. Most of these artworks and sketches were likely created in Europe before 1933.

Reference Number

AP104.S1

Arrangement

La série est organisée en 5 sous-séries qui contiennent des documents de formation, des dessins d'architecture et de meubles, des oeuvres d'art, des carnets de croquis, et des estampes.