Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)

Untitled 1967 Litho collage mounted on canvas 491 x 263 cm Provenance: > French-Canadian private collection Bibliography: > Riopelle, des visions d'Amérique, Les Éditions de l'Homme, Montréal, 1997, p.8 > Yseult Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Catalogue raisonné, volume 4, Hibou Éditeurs, Montreal, 2014, p. 285 reproduced in color under reference 1967/045P.1967 > Catalogue raisonné of prints by Jean Paul Riopelle, Hibou Éditeurs/Acatos, 2005, p. 71 Exhibitions: > 1970 Sculptures et grands formats de Riopelle, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence > 1998, Riopelle à Baie-Saint-Paul, Centre d'Exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul, p. 58, back label > 2001, Riopelle, un lieu de liberté, traveling exhibition : Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, OShawa, cat. p. 52 Condition report: Annotated on the back 201163 In 1967, Riopelle experimented for a short period with works composed of lithographic essays that he cut out and glued together, thus coming closer to the work of the Nouveaux Réalistes such as Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé. Our work is part of a reduced corpus of 4 monumental panels, a kind of twentieth-century cathedral stained-glass windows that are the culmination of this artistic approach.