Ozias Leduc

The Sage of Saint-Hilaire (Known as "Ozias Leduc")

Symbolist Painter, Master of Sacred Church Murals, Mentor to Borduas

Born 8 October 1864

Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada

Passed Away 16 June 1955 Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada

Lifespan 90 years old

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"Art is prayer made visible; silence in the studio is where eternity speaks to the brush."

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Venerated Quebec symbolist painter known as "the Sage of Saint-Hilaire," whose mystical still lifes and magnificent church murals bridged tradition and modernism.

Biographical Record

Ozias Leduc lived a life of monk-like artistic dedication on the slopes of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. Over a sixty-year career, Leduc decorated over thirty churches and chapels across Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New England with profound, poetic religious murals imbued with symbolic luminosity.

Equally masterly in easel painting, his meditative still lifes (such as The Reader and Still Life with Books) and mystical landscapes influenced generations of young artists, most notably Paul-Émile Borduas, whom Leduc mentored as a studio assistant. He received an honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal in 1938.

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Mont-Saint-Hilaire Cemetery
Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada

                         GPS: 45.5667, -73.1833                    

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