Curator, art historian and former general director of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), Esther Trépanier, has died, her partner Jacques Tremblay announced.
Posted at 5:08 p.m.
“It is with great regret that I have to inform you that my light, my star Esther, went out this morning,” Jacques Tremblay said on Monday afternoon.
Esther Trépanier was Professor of Art History at UQAM from 1980 to 2020 and had a successful career as an exhibition curator and author of catalogs – Adrien Hébert (1992), Le Paysage au Québec 1910-1930/ The Group of Seven (1997).
In 2022, she commissioned an exhibition at the Joliette Art Museum on abstraction in Quebec in the 1940s, before the arrival of the Automatists.
Read our text about this exhibition
Esther Trépanier was also general director of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) from 2008 to 2011, succeeding John Porter. Ms. Line Ouellet took over the management in 2011.
Ms. Trépanier earned a doctorate in art history from the University of Paris I. She also holds a master's degree in fine arts from UQAM and another in philosophy from the University of Paris VIII, as well as a doctorate in sociology from the University of Paris VIII.