Bruno Côté was a contemporary Canadian landscape painter.

Biography

Bruno Côté was born in Quebec City

Quebec City

Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

 in August 1940. His youth in a family where art held a strong significance encouraged the development of his artistic talents. He joined the family's publicity business in 1957. In 1978 he moved to Baie-Saint-Paul, where he held his first important solo exhibition. In 1980 he began to travel, painting landscapes in many different regions of Canada.
Bruno Côté is represented by art galleries across Canada. In 2008 the Canadian Parliament gave Côté's painting, The Portage Trail to the Parliament of Scotland

Parliament of Scotland

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 to mark the opening of the Scottish Parliament Building

Scottish Parliament Building

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.

Côté died on June 30, 2010 in Baie-Saint-Paul, after prostate cancer

Prostate cancer

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had metastasized.

Public collections

• Ambassade de Corée
• Canadian Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
• American Embassy, Ottawa
• Centre National d'exposition Baie‑St‑Paul
• Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A
• Musée D'Art Contemporain de Montréal (collection Lavalin)
• Musée de Charlevoix
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
• Musée Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Montréal
• United Nations, New York
• Scottish Parliament, Edinburg, Scotland
• Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver
• Université Laval
• University of New Brunswick

External links

• Galerie d'art Michel-Ange - Art Gallery, Montreal official website of Bruno Côté
• Galerie d'art Vincent, Ottawa
• Hollander York Gallery Toronto
• La Galerie sur Greene Westmount
• Galerie Art & Style Baie-Saint-Paul
• West End Gallery Edmonton
• Assiniboia Gallery Regina
• Kensington Fine Art Gallery Calgary
• Galerie Les peintre Québecois Quebec