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Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
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Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)

Le Puits hanté

Fermé30 September 2015

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Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
Le Puits hanté
signed and dated 'Riopelle 57' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (54.6 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in 1957.

Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Galerie Claude Lafitte, Montreal
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 6 October 1992, lot 33
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Note du spécialiste

There is no abstraction nor is there representation: there is only expression, and to express oneself is to look at things and face them. To abstract means to remove, to isolate, to separate, while my aim, on the contrary, is to add, draw near, to bind.
-Jean-Paul Riopelle