ONLINE AUCTION
Riopelle & His Contemporaries
3rd session

September 05 - September 26, 2024

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This session is closed for bidding.
Current bid: $30,000 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

31447 26-Sep-2024 02:58:31 PM $30,000

8015 26-Sep-2024 01:41:39 PM $27,500

10820 25-Sep-2024 10:53:28 AM $25,000

The bidding history list updated on: Saturday, October 05, 2024 04:37:35

LOT 204

AUTO CAS OC QMG RCA SCA
1923 - 2002
Canadian

L'île joyeuse
oil on canvas, circa 1956
initialed and on verso titled on the gallery labels and inscribed ''N/S: 1956.005H''
5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in, 14 x 19.1 cm

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000 CAD

Sold for: $37,250

Preview at: Heffel Montreal

PROVENANCE
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Winchester Galleries, Victoria
Private Collection, Vancouver
Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal
Post-War & Contemporary Art - Galerie Simon Blais, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 14, 2020, lot h116
Private Collection, Montreal

LITERATURE
Ferron-Riopelle Duos, Galerie Simon Blais, 2019, reproduced page 22
Yseult Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle Catalogue Raisonné Online Addenda, Volume 2, catalogue #1956.005H.V1956

EXHIBITED
Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, Ferron-Riopelle Duos, February 2 - March 30, 2019


A veritable haiku poem of oil paint on canvas, this little composition contains all of the trademark elements of Jean Paul Riopelle’s major works. Thick globs of paint are feverishly applied with jabs of the palette knife and the resulting mastery leaves us with a sensuous luxury object. It is not unlike what in African cultures one would refer to as a “passport”, where the object is used to demonstrate the creative talents of its creator, who would then carry it with him as identification while traveling. This work was first acquired by Dr. Stern of Montreal’s Dominion Gallery, who regularly purchased from Riopelle directly at his studio in Vanves, France.

This work is accompanied by the duplicata certificate of authenticity from Yseult Riopelle.


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