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ABSTRACT MASTERWORKS FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE (1923-2002)
La Forêt (The Forest)
Details
JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE (1923-2002)
La Forêt (The Forest)
signed and dated ‘Riopelle 53’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 ¾ x 76 ¾in. (129 x 195cm.)
Painted in 1953
La Forêt (The Forest)
signed and dated ‘Riopelle 53’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 ¾ x 76 ¾in. (129 x 195cm.)
Painted in 1953
Provenance
Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne.
Private Collection (acquired from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s Paris, 9 December 2015, lot 20.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Private Collection (acquired from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s Paris, 9 December 2015, lot 20.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Y. Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle, Catalogue Raisonné 1939-1953, Volume I, Montreal 1999, no. 1953.020H.1953 (illustrated, p. 386).
Exhibited
Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Jean Paul Riopelle: Arbeiten von 1947 bis 1957. Gemälde. Gouachen. Aquarelle., 1958, no. 9 (illustrated in the Städtisches Museum Wuppertal catalogue, p. 9). This exhibition later travelled to Wuppertal, Städtisches Museum Wuppertal and Hanover, Museum Kestner-Gesellschaft.
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Karel Appel, Georges Mathieu, Mattia Moreni, Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1959, p. 48, no. 92. This exhibition later travelled to Neuchâtel, Musée des Beaux-Arts.
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus, Vom Bauhaus bis zur Gegenwart. Meisterwerke aus deutschem Privatbesitz, 1967, p. 17, no. 68 (illustrated, p. 153).
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Karel Appel, Georges Mathieu, Mattia Moreni, Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1959, p. 48, no. 92. This exhibition later travelled to Neuchâtel, Musée des Beaux-Arts.
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus, Vom Bauhaus bis zur Gegenwart. Meisterwerke aus deutschem Privatbesitz, 1967, p. 17, no. 68 (illustrated, p. 153).
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