Inscriptions
signed, ‘Cloutier’ (lower right); titled, ‘Beloeil House’ (verso, upper centre); artist’s studio stamp (verso, centre)Provenance
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Private collection, Town of Mount Royal, Quebec
He was part of the Oxford Group led by the painters André Biéler and Edwin Holgate, who met regularly in a below-ground room at the Oxford Tavern at lunchtime. The group had roughly equal numbers of francophone and anglophone members. Other members of the group included artist Adrien Hébert and art critic Jean Chauvin.