{{Short description|Canadian painter}}
{{Infobox artist | name = Pierre Henry | honorific_suffix = RCA | awards = | patrons = | works = | movement = Anecdotism | training = | field = Painting | alma_mater = École des beaux-arts de Montréal | death_place = | death_date = {{death year and age|2013|1932}} | birth_place = Bonaventure, Gaspésie, Quebec, Canada | birth_date = {{birth year |1932}} | birth_name = | caption = | image = Pierre_Henry_(painter_1932-2013).jpeg | image_size = 120px | style = }}
'''Pierre Henry''', RCA (1932–2013) was a French Canadian artist and painter born in Gaspésie, Quebec, who became the first president of the ''Centre les impatients'' in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pays de villages – Pierre Henry « GALERIE MICHEL-ANGE ART GALLERY |url=http://www.michel-ange.net/?livre=pays-de-villages-pierre-henry |access-date=2022-08-24 |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
== Life and career == Henry studied art in Montreal at the École des beaux-arts, ultimately spending most of his life in the Montreal subregion.<ref name=":0" />
Henry is known for his landscape oil paintings and abstract works,<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Asselin |first=Hedwidge |date=1994 |title=Pierre Henry ou la poésie du paysage intérieur |pages=54–55 |work=Vie des Arts |url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/va/1994-v39-n154-va1158925/53546ac.pdf |access-date=24 August 2022}}</ref> and has exhibited in galleries throughout Canada and North America. His work has been characterized as displaying "a serious lack of seriousness", which is also a feature of the artistic movement, "''anecdotism''", which Henry founded.<ref name="marden2">{{Cite web |title=Pierre Henry |url=https://mardenartgallery.com/gallery/artists/pierre-henry |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=Marden Art}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Henry |first=Pierre |title=Le chant du sanglier: petit traité de l'anecdotisme = Get out of the pool : an introduction to anecdotism |date=2012 |publisher=Éditions Liber |isbn=978-2-89578-380-0 |location=Montréal, QC |oclc=847505236}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Ville de Montréal - Portail officiel - Détail du communiqué |url=https://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=5798,42657625&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&id=24353&ret=http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/url/page/prt_vdm_fr/rep_annonces_ville/rep_communiques/communiques |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102203706/https://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=5798,42657625&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&id=24353&ret=http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/url/page/prt_vdm_fr/rep_annonces_ville/rep_communiques/communiques |archive-date=2022-01-02 |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=ville.montreal.qc.ca |language=fr-ca}}</ref> Henry’s art features in several prestigious institutional collections, such as at the Royal Bank of Canada, IBM Canada and DuPont.<ref name=":1" />
Henry’s artistic career includes the rehabilitation of a historic house in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, transforming it into the {{Interlanguage link|Marsil Museum|lt=Musée Marsil|fr|Musée_de_la_mode_(Montréal)#Les_débuts_à_la_maison_Marsil}}, and creating "''Les femmeuses''", an annual exhibition that showcased the work of female artists.<ref name=":0" />
In addition to his artistic endeavours, Henry worked as vice president of communications with Pratt & Whitney, and with Concordia University as president of the consulting committee for the Faculty of Fine Arts.<ref name=":0" />
In 1992, Henry became the president of the ''Centres les impatients'', an organization that uses art therapy to help those suffering from various mental health conditions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=H |first=C. |title=Les Impatients de Montréal |url=https://voir.ca/livres/2003/05/28/les-impatients-de-montreal/ |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=Voir.ca |language=fr-CA}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
== Honours == In 1995, Henry became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="marden2" />
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{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Henry, Pierre}} Category:1932 births Category:2013 deaths Category:20th-century Canadian painters Category:People from Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine