Lot 14
  • 14

JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE | Untitled

Estimate
480,000 - 650,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Paul Riopelle
  • Untitled
  • signed
  • oil on canvas
  • 114 x 146 cm; 44  7/8  x 57  1/2  in.
  • Executed in 1958.

Provenance

Galerie Stadler, Paris
Cavellini Collection, Brescia
Private Collection, Europe

Exhibited

Torino, Palazzo Graneri, Arte Nuova, 1959; catalogue, pp. 73, 108
Torino, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna di Torino, La Pittura Moderna Straniera nelle Collezioni Private Italiane, 4 March - 9 April 1961; catalogue, np., pl. 198, illustrated

Literature

Russoli Franco, L'Arte Moderna. Volume XII: Correnti Contemporanee I - (Naturalismo astratto, Informale, Arte gestuale, Arte materica ecc.), 1967, Milan, p. 60, illustrated in colour
Yseult Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle, Catalogue Raisonné Tome 2, 1954 - 1959, Montreal, 2004, p. 297, illustrated

Condition

The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. The paint presents some hairline age cracks mainly located on the thicker black and white impasto's. A small loss is located along the lower edge in the purple area. The green areas present stabilised cracks, mainly located in the left half of the canvas. A few small chips and tiny losses are located at the extremities of the impasto's. Under Ultra Violet Light inspection some previously restored areas fluoresce.
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