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Lot Essay
« Mes tableaux considérés comme les plus abstraits auront été pour moi, les plus figuratifs au sens propre du terme. A l’inverse, est-ce que ces peintures dont on croit lire le sujet d’emblée - les oies, les hiboux, les orignaux - ne sont pas plus abstraites que le reste ? Abstrait : ‘abstraction’, ‘tirer de’, ‘faire venir de’... ma démarche est inverse. Je ne tire pas de la nature, je vais vers la nature. »
“Those of my pictures which are considered the most abstract were, for me, the most figurative in the true sense of the word. But, are those pictures whose subject matter people think they can understand straight away – geese, owls, originals – not more abstract than the rest? To abstract: ‘Abstraction’, ‘to derive from’, ‘to obtain from’ … I operate the other way round. I do not derive from Nature, I go towards Nature”.
Jean-Paul Riopelle
“Those of my pictures which are considered the most abstract were, for me, the most figurative in the true sense of the word. But, are those pictures whose subject matter people think they can understand straight away – geese, owls, originals – not more abstract than the rest? To abstract: ‘Abstraction’, ‘to derive from’, ‘to obtain from’ … I operate the other way round. I do not derive from Nature, I go towards Nature”.
Jean-Paul Riopelle