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Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
Lot 266 PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN CORPORATE COLLECTION

Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)

Untitled

Closed29 June 2011

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GBP 265,250

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

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

Specialist note

'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).