In 1939, Marc-Aurèle Fortin leaves once more for Charlevoix to paint.
He returns with a considerable number of watercolours enhanced with pencil
and black pastel.
This innovation astonishes the art world: nobody had ever seen before
watercolours enhanced with charcoal, pencil and thick pastel in this way.
This originality in his watercolours presents, here, peaceful landscapes
where the sky is barely sketched in pencil, and there, dramatic and fabulous
subjects which are astonishing in the audacity of their composition.
The skies
full of clouds where the charcoal takes precedence over the watercolour,
suggest alarming gusts of winds. |