LADIES IN A LIVING ROOM

Portrait d'un Dimanche après-midi (Ladies in a Living Room)

Artist: Monique "Mo" Harvey (Canadian, 1950-2001)

Date: Signed and dated 1978

Dimensions: 24″ × 30″

Origin: Canadian

About the Artist

Monique "Mo" Harvey was a Canadian painter who lived and worked in Montreal, Quebec. She was born in a popular neighbourhood on Notre-Dame Street in Montreal. At the age of 28, a simple painting class intended to relax her work led to her true vocation. Harvey then took drawing and painting classes, which led toward a Certificate of Fine Arts from the University of Sherbrooke in 1980.

In 1983 Harvey participated in a first group exhibition at the Old Port of Montréal, where she stood out as a talented and charismatic artist. Her work was exhibited at numerous galleries and museums throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including the Marc-Aurèle-Fortin Museum, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, and galleries in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, and Winnipeg.

Harvey's vibrant pictorial heritage is abundant in colour and form, showing great sensitivity. She died in 2001 at the age of 51, leaving behind a significant body of work.