255 - Jean Paul RIOPELLE (1923–2002)

Jean Paul RIOPELLE (1923–2002) Untitled, 1950 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 60 x 70 cm A certificate of authenticity issued by Ms. Yseult RIOPPELLE will be provided to the buyer. We thank her for authenticating this work. PROVENANCE: - Private collection. Has remained in the same family since the 1950s NOTE: JEAN PAUL RIOPELLE’S 1950s Originally from Canada, Jean Paul RIOPELLE moved to Paris in 1947. There he met HAYTER, MIRO, and LIPCHITZ, and realized that other painters painted and thought like him: HARTUNG, ATLAN, WOLS, BRYEN, MATHIEU, etc. He began participating in exhibitions organized by the “Automatisme” group at Eva PHILIPPE’s Galerie du Luxembourg as early as 1947. He also met leading gallery owners and art critics such as Pierre LOEB, André BRETON, Nina DAUSSET, Georges DUTHUIT, Samuel BECKETT… and exhibited regularly at the Salon des Surindépendants and the Salon de Mai. “The paintings from the 1949–1953 period capture the twists and turns of this unprecedented ascent. First glimpsed through the stretched or torn mesh of the script, it expands, thickens, draws closer, and finally overflows… The numerous, undiluted pigments descend upon the canvas in bursts and harmonies that do not conform to any known chromatic system,” writes Pierre SCHNEIDER in his preface to the RIOPELLE retrospective at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris in 1981.