title: Action Painting II
text: # Action Painting II
  
  Action Painting II is a 1984 painting by Mark Tansey, now in the Jean-Noël Desmarais pavilion, the contemporary art section of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, to which it was donated by Nahum Gelber.
  
  It was produced using a canvas prepared with gesso, before being painted in grisaille.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * Analyse, voir § b : Mark Tansey : L'association de la technique du gesso et des images d'archive à la photographie
  