Jean Paul Riopelle
Jean Paul Riopelle
1923 - 2002
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Although he worked in various mediums throughout his lifetime, Jean-Paul Riopelle is best known for his nonfigurative, brightly coloured paintings worked with a palette knife.

Growing up in Montreal where he was born in 1923, Riopelle first pursued art-making as a hobby rather than a career, and in contrast to his later work, the landscape and still life paintings he produced during these early years were academic in style. He later studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Ecole du Meuble in Montreal, graduating from the latter in 1945.

It was under the direction of Paul Emile Borduas, with whom he studied at the Ecole du Meuble, that Riopelle produced his first abstract painting. During his years at the Ecole du Meuble Riopelle became involved in the Automatistes, a group of progressive writers and artists in Quebec who rebelled against the academic and social constraints of the time, and were heavily influenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism.

Riopelle was to later sign the Refus Global in 1948, the 12-page anti-establishment manifesto written by Borduas.

In 1947 he moved to Paris where he met Surrealists such as Andre Breton, and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Dragonne for which Breton wrote an accompanying text. Riopelle refused to identify stylistically with any one group however, instead choosing to experiment with expression by way of medium and colour, and by the 1950s Riopelle had moved on to creating drip-like paintings.

Throughout his career Riopelle exhibited internationally extensively, and received many awards and acclamations including the UNESCO prize in 1962 and the Order of Canada in 1969.

He returned to Canada in the early 1990s, and passed away on March 12, 2002. As the leading Canadian abstract painter of his generation and a founder of the modern art movement in Quebec, Jean-Paul Riopelle permanently transformed Canadian painting traditions.
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Vent du nord by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $7,438,750
Jean Paul Riopelle
Vent du nord
51 x 76 3/4 in 129.5 x 194.9 cm
1952
oil on canvas
Estimation : $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $7,438,750 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Spring 2017 - 1st Session le Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Sans titre by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $2,881,250
Jean Paul Riopelle
Sans titre
28 3/4 x 39 3/8 in 73 x 100 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $2,881,250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art le Wednesday, June 01, 2022
Jouet by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $2,881,250
Jean Paul Riopelle
Jouet
45 x 57 1/2 in 114.3 x 146.1 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $1,200,000 - $1,600,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $2,881,250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art le Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Incandescence by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $2,281,250
Jean Paul Riopelle
Incandescence
35 x 57 3/4 in 88.9 x 146.7 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $1,500,000 - $2,500,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $2,281,250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art le Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Carnaval II by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $2,281,250
Jean Paul Riopelle
Carnaval II
38 x 57 3/4 in 96.5 x 146.7 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $1,500,000 - $2,500,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $2,281,250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art le Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Il était une fois une ville by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $1,667,500
Jean Paul Riopelle
Il était une fois une ville
76 1/2 x 51 in 194.3 x 129.5 cm
1954
oil on canvas
Estimation : $750,000 - $950,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $1,667,500 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Fine Canadian Art Fall 2006 le Friday, November 24, 2006
Sans titre (Composition #2) by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $1,638,000
Jean Paul Riopelle
Sans titre (Composition #2)
50 x 64 3/4 in 127 x 164.4 cm
1951
oil on canvas
Estimation : $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $1,638,000 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Fall 2008 - 1st Session le Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Sans titre by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $1,441,250
Jean Paul Riopelle
Sans titre
31 7/8 x 39 1/2 in 81 x 100.3 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $1,200,000 - $1,800,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $1,441,250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art le Wednesday, December 02, 2020
Pleine saison by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $1,298,000
Jean Paul Riopelle
Pleine saison
51 1/8 x 63 3/4 in 129.8 x 161.9 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $400,000 - $600,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $1,298,000 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Spring 2014 - 1st Session le Wednesday, May 28, 2014
La ligne d'eau by Jean Paul Riopelle vendu pour $1,261,250
Jean Paul Riopelle
La ligne d'eau
118 3/8 x 158 in 300.7 x 401.3 cm
1977
oil on canvas diptych
Estimation : $800,000 - $1,200,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $1,261,250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art le Wednesday, December 02, 2020