Bruno Côté Explained

Bruno Côté (August 10, 1940 – June 30, 2010)^[1] was a Canadian landscape painter.

Biography

Bruno Côté was born in Quebec City in August 1940. His youth in a family where art held a strong significance encouraged the development of his artistic talents. He joined the family's publicity business in 1957. In 1978 he moved to Baie-Saint-Paul, where he held his first important solo exhibition. In 1980 he began to travel, painting landscapes in many different regions of Canada.Bruno Côté is represented by art galleries across Canada. Such art galleries have been for example, in the Chateau Laurier hotel of Ottawa Canada.^[2] In 2008 the Canadian Parliament gave Côté's painting, The Portage Trail to the Parliament of Scotland to mark the opening of the Scottish Parliament Building.^[3]

Côté died on June 30, 2010, in Baie-Saint-Paul, after prostate cancer had metastasized.^[4]

Public collections

• Ambassade de Corée
• Canadian Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
• American Embassy, Ottawa
• Centre National d'exposition Baie‑St‑Paul
• Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A
• Musée D'Art Contemporain de Montréal (collection Lavalin)
• Musée de Charlevoix
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
• Musée Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Montréal
• United Nations, New York
• Scottish Parliament, Edinburg, Scotland
• Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver
• Université Laval
• University of New Brunswick

Publications

• Book: Babinska, Roxane . Jean-Éric Riopel . Bruno Côté : Beyond the Land . 2-921585-62-6 .
• Book: Thibault, Marie-Josée . Bruno Côté : A Man in His World . 2005 . Galerie d'art Vincent . Ottawa, Ont. . 2-921585-85-5.
• Book: Bruno Côté / Louis Bruens. 1990 . Éditions La Palette . . 2-9801060-4-6.
• Book: Fournier, Martin . Trans. Katherine Baker. Moods and colours of a Land : Bruno Côté. 1999. Galerie d'art Vincent. Ottawa . 2-921585-38-3.
• Book: Assier, Maurice . Paul V. Beaulieu. Bruno Côté. 1985. Éditions M. Broquet. LaPrairie, Québec. 2-89000-094-X.
• Book: Parent, Célyne. Bruno Côté peintre. Dynix. 46528633 .
• Book: Babinska, Roxane. Jean-Éric Riopel. Bruno Côté : au-delà du paysage. 2003. Éditions V. Fortier. Ottawa . 2-921585-62-6.

References

• Canadian Heritage
• A Dictionary of Canadian Artists - volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
• Library and Archives Canada

External links

• official website of Bruno Côté
• art gallery representing Bruno Côté

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bruno Côté s'éteint à l'âge de 69 ans - LCN - National. https://archive.today/20120903222356/http://lcn.canoe.ca/lcn/infos/national/archives/2010/07/20100702-134112.html. usurped. September 3, 2012. lcn.canoe.ca. 23 July 2010.
2. Hollander York Art Gallery catalogues of art exhibits, Toronto Canada.
3. Web site: Magazin'Art: Les gens qui font l'événement. magazinart.com. 23 July 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110714020219/http://www.magazinart.com/evenement.html. 14 July 2011.
4. Fine, Philip (August 20, 2010). "He felt, and painted, the call of the wild", The Globe and Mail, p. S8.