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Jean-Paul Riopelle Figurative Prints

Canadian, 1923-2002
Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923 – 2002) was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. He became the first Canadian painter (since James Wilson Morrice) to attain widespread international recognition. Born in Montreal, Riopelle began drawing lessons in 1933 and continued through 1938. He studied engineering, architecture and photography at the ecole polytechnique in 1941. In 1942 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal but shifted his studies to the less academic Ecole du Meuble, graduating in 1945. He studied under Paul-Emile Borduas in the 1940s and was a member of Les Automatistes movement. Breaking with traditional conventions in 1945 after reading Andre Breton's Le Surrealisme et la Peinture, he began experimenting with non-objective (or non-representational) painting. He was one of the signers of the Refus global manifesto. In 1947 Riopelle moved to Paris and continued his career as an artist, where, after a brief association with the surrealists (he was the only Canadian to exhibit with them) he capitalized on his image as a "wild Canadian". His first solo exhibition took place in 1949 at the Surrealist meeting place, Galerie La Dragonne in Paris. In 1959 he began a relationship with the American painter Joan Mitchell. Living together throughout the 1960s, they kept separate homes and studios near Giverny, where Monet had lived. They influenced one another greatly, as much intellectually as artistically, but their relationship was a stormy one, fueled by alcohol. The relationship ended in 1979. His 1992 painting Hommage a Rosa Luxemburg is Riopelle's tribute to Mitchell, who died that year, and is regarded as a high point of his later work. Riopelle's style in the 1940s changed quickly from Surrealism to Lyrical Abstraction (related to abstract expressionism), in which he used myriad tumultuous cubes and triangles of multicolored elements, facetted with a palette knife, spatula, or trowel, on often large canvases to create powerful atmospheres. The presence of long filaments of paint in his painting from 1948 through the early 1950s has often been seen as resulting from a dripping technique like that of Jackson Pollock. Rather, the creation of such effects came from the act of throwing, with a palette knife or brush, large quantities of paint onto the stretched canvas (positioned vertically). Riopelle's voluminous impasto became just as important as color. Riopelle was arguably one of the most important Canadian artists of the 20th century, establishing his reputation in the burgeoning postwar art scene of Paris, where his entourage included Andre Breton, Sam Francis and Samuel Beckett. Riopelle produced over six thousand works (of which he produced more than two thousand paintings) during the course of his lifetime.
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Artist: Jean-Paul Riopelle
Tribute to Nelligan : Prince of Leafs - Original lithograph, Handsigned
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Paul RIOPELLE Tribute to Nelligan : Prince of Leafs Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Arches vellum 56 x 76 cm (c. 22 x 30 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Y. Riopel...
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Tribute to Nelligan : The Leafs - Original lithograph, Handsigned
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Paul RIOPELLE Tribute to Nelligan : The Leafs Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Arches vellum 56 x 76 cm (c. 22 x 30 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Y. Riopelle #19...
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1970s American Modern Jean-Paul Riopelle Figurative Prints

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Tribute to Nelligan : Visage of Nature - Original lithograph, Handsigned
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Paul RIOPELLE Tribute to Nelligan : Visage of Nature Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Arches vellum 56 x 76 cm (c. 22 x 30 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Y. Riope...
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Abstract Composition - Original Lithograph by Jean-Paul Riopelle - 1968
By Jean-Paul Riopelle
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original lithograph realized by Jean-Paul Riopelle in 1968 for the Art Magazine "Derrière Le Miroir". Good conditions. The artwork represents an abstrac...
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