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Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
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signed 'Riopelle' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 54in. (91.8 x 137cm.)
Painted in 1956

Provenance

Private Collection, Amsterdam.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Further details

The authenticity of this work has been kindly confirmed by Mrs. Yseult Riopelle and it will be included in the forthcoming new edition of the Jean-Paul Riopelle Catalogue raisonné.

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'The painting must work itself out. It is a process...I am not one of those artists seeking a wonderful green...I never tell myself, that I have to paint like this or like that to get one effect or another. If I reach that point, I stop. It's dangerous...because then I am on the technical side of painting...and it loses its emotional unity. Because technique will unfortunately win out...' (Riopelle, quoted in Jean-Paul Riopelle Catalogue raisonné 1939-1953 Tomo I, Montreal 1999, p. 51).

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