Lot 206
  • 206

JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE | Iceberg

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Paul Riopelle
  • Iceberg
  • oil on canvas
  • 38 x 46 cm ; 15 x 18 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1978.

Provenance

Private Collection, France
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Guy Robert, Riopelle chasseur d'image, Montréal 1981, p. 158, illustrated

Condition

This work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. An uplift in the black impasto in the lower left corner is visible under close inspection. Some of the thicker impastos present very faint drying cracks.
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