Lot 384
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Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)

Saguenay

Details
Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
Saguenay
signed and dated 'riopelle 57' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ¾ x 32 1/8in. (65.3 x 81.5cm.)
Painted in 1957
Provenance
Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris.
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne.
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in the late 1950s).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Jean-Paul Riopelle: 1947-1957. Gemälde. Gouache. Aquarell., 1958, no. 39. This exhibition later travelled to Wuppertal, Städisches Museum.

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Lot Essay

‘My paintings that are considered the most abstract are, in my opinion, the most representational in the strictest sense of the term. Conversely, are those paintings whose meanings we believe we are able to read - the geese, the owls, the moose - not actually more abstract than the rest? Abstract: ‘abstraction,’ ‘taken from,’ ‘to bring from’... I work the other way round. I do not take from Nature, I move toward Nature.’ JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE

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