LOT 021

AUTO CAS OC QMG RCA SCA
1923 - 2002
Canadian

Sans titre
oil on canvas, 1952
signed and on verso titled as Composition on the Galerie Änne Abels label, inscribed "16" / "2284" and stamped indistinctly
47 1/4 x 78 3/4 in, 120 x 200 cm

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PROVENANCE
Dotremont Collection, Brussels
Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne
Acquired from the above by a Private Collection, 1960
Contemporary Art, Christie’s Paris, June 1, 2012, lot 12
Private Collection, New York

LITERATURE
Yseult Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 1, 1939 – 1953, 1999, reproduced pages 226 – 227 and listed page 378, catalogue #1952.017H.1952
Un art autre? Artistes autour de Michel Tapié, Christie’s Paris, 2012, reproduced pages 132 – 133

EXHIBITED
Kestner-Gesellschaft Museum, Hanover, Jean-Paul Riopelle, September 13 – October 19, 1958, catalogue #16
Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne, Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1959, catalogue #1
Christie’s Paris, Un art autre? Artistes autour de Michel Tapié, January – March 2012


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