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Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
Sans titre (Untitled)
signed 'riopelle' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ½ x 31 7/8in. (65 x 81cm.)
Painted circa 1958

Provenance

Galerie Krugier, Geneva.
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s London, 10 February 2006, lot 200.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

P. Schneider, Riopelle, Signes mêlés, Paris 1972, no. 87 (illustrated, p. 84).
Y. Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle Catalogue raisonné, Tome 2, 1954 – 1959, Montréal 2004, no. 1958.062H.V1958 (illustrated in colour, p. 298).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘Riopelle succeeds where memory fails. The intangible is given a body, desire a pictorial life. Objects astray, discarded impressions, forgotten emotions are put together in a cocktail-shaker and are poured out on the rocks in a Venetian glass of exquisite transparency in a splendid explosion.’
– Pierre Boudreau

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