BIOGRAPHY:
Marcelle was born in Louiseville on January 29, 1924. Her childhood was particularly difficult because she suffered from tuberculosis from the age of 3 and then lost her mother prematurely. She later studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Québec. A co-signatory of the Refus global manifesto alongside Paul-Émile Borduas, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Fernand Leduc, Pierre Gauvreau, Marcel Barbeau, and Françoise Sullivan, she established herself as one of the most important artists in Quebec. In 1953, she left for Paris with her three daughters and lived there for about a dozen years. Back in Quebec in 1966, she created several large stained-glass works, notably for the Champs-de-Mars metro station (1968), the Sacré-Coeur Church in Quebec City (1969), and the Granby courthouse (1979). She passed away on November 19, 2001, in Montreal.
