Ozias Leduc’s career spanned seventy years of unceasing activity in genres as varied as easel paintings, religious murals, designs for stained glass windows, book illustration, theatre set design, and sculpture. The following selection of important works conveys a sense of the many issues he raised, and the diverse avenues he pursued in his constant questioning of the role of the work of art, its place in history, and its meaning in the culture of a specific society: his own.
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The Three Apples 1887
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Phrenology 1892
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Boy with Bread 1892–99
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The Young Student 1894
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Still Life with Lay Figure 1898
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My Portrait 1899
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Madame Ernest Lebrun, née Adélia Leduc, the Artist’s Sister 1899
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The Choquette Farm, Beloeil 1901
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Portrait of the Honourable Louis-Philippe Brodeur 1901-4
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Erato (Muse in the Forest) c.1906
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Green Apples 1914-15
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Mauve Twilight 1921
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Mary Hailed as Co-Redeemer c.1922–32
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Snow on Branches 1936
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The Millworkers c.1950
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About the Author
Laurier Lacroix, C.M., is a professor emeritus of the Université de Québec à Montréal, where he taught art history and museum studies.
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