Bleu petrifié - Petrified blue

Details

Roger Francois Thépot (French/Canadian, b. 1925)
Bleu petrifié - Petrified blue
signed and dated 'R.F. Thépot.56.' (lower right)
gouache on paper
62.5 x 49.5 cm.

Literature

Edition Prisme, Thépot, Paris 1956, ill. p. 32

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie du Prisme, 1956.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve and will be sold to the highest bidder. Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

Thépot turned to abstraction in 1951. Contacts with Michel Seuphor and Jean Arp in 1956 were decisive for his style, which he maintains until this day. Founding member of Groupe Mesure in Paris, Thépot lives in Toronto and spends his summers in Paris.

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