ONLINE AUCTION
Riopelle & His Contemporaries
3rd session

September 05 - September 26, 2024

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Current bid: $15,000 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

847305 26-Sep-2024 01:35:21 PM $15,000

The bidding history list updated on: Monday, October 07, 2024 07:03:19

LOT 235

AANFM AUTO CAS QMG
1927 - 1991
Canadian

Sans titre
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1963
40 x 30 in, 101.6 x 76.2 cm

Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 CAD

Sold for: $18,750

Preview at: Heffel Montreal

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Quebec City
Post-War & Contemporary Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, November 20, 2019, lot 040
Private Collection, Montreal


Sans titre, an exciting display of complex, layered colours, represents Jean-Paul Mousseau’s unique and expressive approach to abstraction. Using broad gestural strokes, Mousseau has scraped and marbled his paints into a spirited display of intense brushwork. Intricate veils of varying shades of blue shimmer over black, white, orange, lavender, red and soft pink strokes that appear in the background. The result is undeniably liberated and expressive, enveloping the viewer with its richly painted surface.

Executed in 1963, this work dates from a vital period in Mousseau’s career. From the second half of the 1950s, his interest in the social aspect of art grew. He turned towards the applied arts, such as resin and fibreglass light fixtures, theatre set design and costumes, and, most importantly, public art integrated into architecture. In the early 1960s, he worked on major public art projects, including the mural for the Hydro-Québec headquarters and the ceramic murals in the Peel subway station in Montreal. Mousseau was also a signatory of the manifesto Refus global and was the youngest member of the groundbreaking Automatiste group.


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