Lot 129
  • 129

JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE | Pays d'en haut

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Paul Riopelle
  • Pays d'en haut
  • signed
  • watercolour and ink on paper
  • 25 x 32 cm; 9  7/8  x 12  1/2  in.
  • Executed in 1948-1949.

Provenance

Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Edouard & Jeannine Chapet, Paris

Exhibited

Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Jean-Paul Riopelle, 13 September - 19 October 1958; catalogue, p. no. 77

Literature

Guy Robert, Riopelle, Chasseur d'images, Montreal, 1981, p. 55
Yseult Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Catalogue Raisonné, 1939-1953, Tome 1, Montreal, 1999, p. 416, no. 1949.001P.1948-1949, illustrated

Condition

Please note that this work has been inspected framed. The colours are fairly accurate in the printed catalogue illustration however the overall tonality is slightly softer. Faint wear marks are located along the edges. This work is in very good condition.
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