Lot 22
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JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE | Régate

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean-Paul Riopelle
  • Régate
  • signed
  • oil on canvas
  • 39 1/2 by 32 in. 100.3 by 81.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1962.

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Toronto, Moos Gallery, 1975, cat. no. 6
Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Jean-Paul Riopelle: les années soixante, May - July 1994
Montreal, Galerie Simon Blais, Jean-Paul Riopelle: Au delà du all-over, June - August 2009

Literature

Yseult Riopelle and Tanguy Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle Catalogue Raisonné Tome 3 1960-1965, Montreal 2014, cat. no. 1962.003H, p. 140, illustrated in color

Catalogue Note

"There is no abstraction or figuration: there is only expression and expressing oneself, it is about placing oneself in front of things. To abstract means to take away, to isolate, to separate whilst I try to do the contrary, to add, to approach, to link." Jean-Paul Riopelle