Madeline Saucier's mysterious bust

    Quite unexpectedly Madeline Saucier became an internationally-acclaimed artist when she was stricken with illness at this home on De Maisonneuve  at age 22.
  Saucier was born in 1925 and attended Villa Maria where she studied art. One day, aged 22, she was confined to bed in a lengthy battle against illness at 4212 De Maisonneuve in Westmount, so she started fashioning a little piece of artwork to pass the time.
   Grape woman, a bronze of a girl with grapes in her hair, was showcased at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City where it drew praise from syndicated columnist L.L. Stevenson.
   The bust was later displayed at a jewelry store in New York where it received more praise.
 
Who owns it now or what it even looks like remain a mystery
   Saucier went on to a high-profile career as a dollmaker and in the 60s her historical dolls were exposed at Stewart Hall, Disneyland and Expo 67.
   Apparently the market for her goods are not all that great, as one of her pieces has attracted only one bid since being listed on Ebay for $10.
   She married war veteran and financier Andre Morin, who died in 1961 and mothered Andre Morin Jr. born in 1953. She died Nov. 24, 1985, aged 72.