Riopelle, Jean Paul
Jouet Riopelle, Jean Paul , 1953 (Dated)
Lot #13 |
2018-11-21 |
Heffel, Tuscany, Italy
FALL 2018 LIVE AUCTION RESULTS
Category:
Painting
Estimate:
CAD 1,200,000 - 1,600,000 (currency of sale)
USD 926,400 - 1,235,200 (approx.)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Heffel
Auction number: FALL_2018_LIVE_AUCTION_RESULTS
Auction name: FALL 2018 LIVE AUCTION RESULTS
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: Tuscany, Italy
Start date: 2018-11-21
Currency: CAD
Lot Description
Details
Genre: 20th Century Canadian Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
Medium: Login to view
Dimensions: 45 x 57 1/2 in, 114.3 x 146.1 cm
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
114.3
Width In Centimeters:
146.1
Height In Inches:
45
Width In Inches:
57.5
Signed: Login to view
Edition: 2
Edition notes: Edition 1/2.
Year notes: Dated in 1953.
Provenance
Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris Galerie Anne Abels, Cologne, 1959 Private Collection, Geneva Sold sale of Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, June 17, 2009, lot 31 Property of an Important Estate, British Columbia
Exhibited
Kunsthalle Basel, Karel Appel, Georges Mathieu, Mattia Moreni and Jean Paul Riopelle, January 24 - March 1, 1959, traveling in 1959 to the Musée des beaux-arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, catalogue #38 Galerie Anne Abels, Cologne, Jean Paul Riopelle, November - December 1959, catalogue #2
Literature
Harold Rosenberg, “The American Action Painting,” Artnews, vol. 51, no. 8, December 1952, pages 22 - 23 and 48 - 50 Robert Goldwater, “These Promising Younger Europeans,” ARTnews, vol. 52, no. 8, December 1953, pages 14 - 16 and 53 - 54 James Fitzsimmons, “Art,” Art and Architecture, vol. 70, no. 12, December 1953, pages 32 - 33 Robert M. Coates, “Young Europeans at Guggenheim Museum,” The New Yorker, no. 29, December 19, 1953, page 89 James Thrall Soby, “Younger European Painters,” Saturday Review, January 2, 1954, pages 61 - 62 Karel Appel, Georges Mathieu, Mattia Moreni and Jean Paul Riopelle, Kunsthalle Basel, 1959 Eduard Trier, Jean Paul Riopelle, Galerie Anne Abels, 1959, reproduced
Catalog summary
Jean Paul Riopelle<br> AUTO CAS OC QMG RCA SCA<br>1923 - 2002<br>Canadian<br>Jouet<br>oil on canvas<br>signed and dated 1953 and on verso titled and stamped with the Paris export stamp<br>45 x 57 1/2 in, 114.3 x 146.1 cm<br>Estimate: $1,200,000 - $1,600,000 CAD CAD<br>Sold for: $2,881,250<br>PROVENANCE Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris Galerie Anne Abels, Cologne, 1959 Private Collection, Geneva Sold sale of Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, June 17, 2009, lot 31 Property of an Important Estate, British Columbia<br>LITERATURE Harold Rosenberg, “The American Action Painting,” Artnews, vol. 51, no. 8, December 1952, pages 22 - 23 and 48 - 50 Robert Goldwater, “These Promising Younger Europeans,” ARTnews, vol. 52, no. 8, December 1953, pages 14 - 16 and 53 - 54 James Fitzsimmons, “Art,” Art and Architecture, vol. 70, no. 12, December 1953, pages 32 - 33 Robert M. Coates, “Young Europeans at Guggenheim Museum,” The New Yorker, no. 29, December 19, 1953, page 89 James Thrall Soby, “Younger European Painters,” Saturday Review, January 2, 1954, pages 61 - 62 Karel Appel, Georges Mathieu, Mattia Moreni and Jean Paul Riopelle, Kunsthalle Basel, 1959 Eduard Trier, Jean Paul Riopelle, Galerie Anne Abels, 1959, reproduced<br>EXHIBITED Kunsthalle Basel, Karel Appel, Georges Mathieu, Mattia Moreni and Jean Paul Riopelle, January 24 - March 1, 1959, traveling in 1959 to the Musée des beaux-arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, catalogue #38 Galerie Anne Abels, Cologne, Jean Paul Riopelle, November - December 1959, catalogue #2