35" JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE "Untitled" painting art printed on canvas
JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE (1923 - 2002)
Title of artwork: "Untitled"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1949
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 35" or 89 cm.
Size: 27,6" x 21,7" (in) or 70 x 55 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Jean-Paul Riopelle
was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. He had one of the longest and
most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the Refus
Global, the 1948 manifesto that announced the Quebecois artistic community's
refusal of clericalism and provincialism. He is best known for his abstract
painting style, in particular his "mosaic" works of the 1950s when he
famously abandoned the paintbrush, using only a palette knife to apply paint to
canvas, giving his works a distinctive sculptural quality. He became the first
Canadian painter (since James Wilson Morrice) to attain widespread international
recognition. On May 24, 2017 Riopelle's painting Vent du nord sold at the
Heffel Fine Art Auction House spring auction for $7,438,750 (CAD) (including
buyer's premium), the second-highest price to date for a Canadian work of art. Heffel
holds the current record for Riopelle's work. In June, 2006 the Montreal Museum
of Fine Arts organized a retrospective exhibition which was presented at the
State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Musee Cantini in
Marseilles, France. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has a number of Riopelle's
works, spanning his entire career, in their permanent collection.
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