Jean-Paul Riopelle (b. 1923)
Untitled
signed 'Riopelle' twice (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 23 3/8in. (91.7 x 59.4cm.)
Painted in 1950
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 30 November 1989, lot 616
Exhibited
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Peintures 1946-1977, September-November 1981, no. 13 (illustrated). This exhibition later travelled to Qubec, Muse du Qubec, December 1981-January 1982; Mexico, Museum of Modern Art, March-April 1982; Caracas, Museum of Fine Arts, May-June 1982 and Montreal, Muse d'Art Contemporain, July-August 1982.
Lot Essay
To be included under archive no. 1950.023H in the forthcoming Jean-Paul Riopelle catalogue raisonn being prepared by Yseult Riopelle.