works, thereby making the building for the Caisse populaire Laurier in Ottawa a dozen bas-reliefs of white concrete, large and small dimensions, varying textures, thicknesses and relief printed to the material. Vermette was also interested in creating watercolor works of all sizes such as, among them, a giant mural of over 80 meters long at Bell Trinity Square Office in Toronto. Another book of art is born, Gestes de Liberté, this time in collaboration with the economist, André Raynauld. Art and science! This challenge of uniting the work of a painter and that of an economist is reflected in the execution of this book which includes an abstract watercolor where dominate color and movement and a series of nine articles on the theme of freedom. Last years In the last thirty years of his life, Claude Vermette devoted most of his activity to painting. His works has been exhibited in Canada and abroad and is represented in the collections of public institutions, large corporations as well as private collections. At the time of his death, he had just finished replacing the five exterior aluminium enameled murals he had created for the walls of the Beaver Lake Pavilion on Mount-Royal in Montréal, which were initially made in ceramic in 1958 and were unfortunately victims of demolition. This historic pavilion was renovated by the City of Montreal and inaugurated in January 2006. To mark the quality of the achievement, the City was awarded the Orange Prize 2006 by the organization Sauvons Montreal in category "Intervention heritage. He was the husband of the artist Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, tapestry weaver who, by the aesthetic and technical qualities of the tapestries and the impressive number of monumental works, has earned an international reputation. The couple who had two children lived in Ste-Adele. Both had a professional art career that spans over a period of sixty years. References Bibliography Claude-Vermette Studio, Personal Archives, years 1946-2006 and C.V. Au vernissage d'un peintre de 16 ans, La Presse, 3 juin 1947, 1ère colonne Un artiste est né, Le Petit Journal, 27 janvier 1952, p. 51, 5ème colonne Irene Kon, Claude Vermette, Canadian Art, November 1960, p.p. 359- 363 Les travaux d'un jeune artiste québécois seront l'objet d'un hommage spécial à San Francisco, La Presse, samedi, 14 mai 1960, p. 36 Michel Lapalme, Une nouvelle industrie: celle de la beauté, Le magazine Maclean, novembre 1969, vol.9, no.11, p. 52-55 René