Rodolphe de Repentigny (11 February 1926 – 24 July 1959) was a painter, art and literary critic for the newspaper La Presse in Montreal (1952-1959), theorist, photographer and mountaineer.
[1] He then travelled to Paris to study literature and philosophy at Sorbonne University (1950-1951) and while there became interested in non-figurative art when he saw the work of Mondrian among others.
In 1954, he reviewed an exhibition of four young artists whom he called ‘Les Plasticiens’, a group composed of Louis Belzile, Jean-Paul Jérôme, Fernand Toupin and 'Jauran' (himself).
[2] In the manifesto, they acknowledged their debt to the Automatists, recognizing their place in the revolutions that had helped to free the arts from "servitude to a materialistic ritual".
[4] In 1959, during a mountaineering trip with friends to Lake Louise in the Rockies, he fell into a crevasse while crossing the Victoria Glacier and died.