“We already have a huge reaction here,” Boyer said shortly after the show was announced. “Newspapers, citizens — we’re receiving e-mails, everybody’s beside themselves.”
About 50 drawings, including pastels, charcoal and watercolour works, by the Montreal-born singer-songwriter will be on display from June 19 to Oct. 3.
The exhibition, which drew thousands of visitors when it came to Montreal for the city’s recent High Lights Festival, includes self-portraits, studies of women and sketches of objects such as furniture and glasses. Cohen’s artwork has been compared to that of surrealist Jean Cocteau. His son Adam Cohen said earlier this year that his father is a huge fan of French artist Henri Matisse.
The Eastern Townships museum will also have a summer show of works by the late Montreal artist Guido Molinari. Some 30 drawings and paintings by Molinari, who was considered a master of abstract painting, will be on display from June 19 to Oct. 11. Boyer expects people will come for Cohen and discover Molinari.
“People who aren’t that interested in art will come just because of the name Cohen,” she said. “We believe just by the reaction from the local people it’s going to be a very good summer.”
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