Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) Lot n° 16

Untitled 1946 Watercolor and ink on paper enriched on the reverse with an ink study on paper annotated "l'École du Meuble" in the upper left corner and signed in the lower right corner 33 x 48 cm Provenance: > French-Canadian collection Bibliography: > Yseult Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Catalogue raisonné, volume 1, Hibou Éditeurs, Montreal, 1999, p. 406, reproduced in black and white under the reference 1946.066P.1946 Jean-Paul Riopelle enrolled at the École du Meuble in 1943. It was with professor Paul-Émile Borduas that he produced his first abstract works. With a few classmates, the artist worked in a shed in Montreal, laying the foundation for the future group of "Automatistes". This work is a precious testimony of this passage with the reuse of a paper from the time when the painter was still a student. Condition report : Numbered on the back 201188