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Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
Lot 384 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION

Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)

Saguenay

Closed7 October 2017

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GBP 143,750

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Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)
Saguenay
signed and dated 'riopelle 57' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ¾ x 32 1/8in. (65.3 x 81.5cm.)
Painted in 1957

Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris.
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne.
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in the late 1950s).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

‘My paintings that are considered the most abstract are, in my opinion, the most representational in the strictest sense of the term. Conversely, are those paintings whose meanings we believe we are able to read - the geese, the owls, the moose - not actually more abstract than the rest? Abstract: ‘abstraction,’ ‘taken from,’ ‘to bring from’... I work the other way round. I do not take from Nature, I move toward Nature.’ JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE