Lot 192
  • 192

Jean-Paul Riopelle

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Paul Riopelle
  • Hublot
  • oil on canvas
  • 54 x 65 cm; 21 1/4 x 25 9/16
  • Executed in 1960.

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris

Exhibited

Venice, XXXII Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1962; catalogue, no. 29
Ottawa, Galerie national du Canada; Montréal, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto; Washington, Philipps Gallery, Jean Paul Riopelle, Peinture et sculpture, 10 January - 16 June 1963; catalogue, no. 57

Literature

Yseult Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle, Catalogue Raisonné, Tome 3 1960-1965, Montreal, 2009, no. 1960.007H.1960, p. 80, illustrated

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration although the overall tonality is slightly brighter in the original work. The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. There are some faint, stabilized cracks scattered throughout the surface, visible only under very close inspection. Under Ultra Violet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. This work is in very good condition.
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