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Jean-Paul Riopelle
"The feeling of space, you find it in the leaf of a tree. A leaf represents a whole forest. What is important is to see it."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Malade depuis plusieurs années, ne se déplaçant pratiquement plus, le peintre Jean-Paul Riopelle est mort le 12 mars 2002, dans sa maison de l'île aux Grues, à l'est de Québec (Canada) ; il avait 78 ans. Le 18, jour où il neigea beaucoup, des funérailles eurent lieu à l'église Immaculée-Conception, dans le quartier du plateau Mont-Royal (Montréal) où le peintre avait grandi. Cette cérémonie entraîna une grande contreverse, car nombre des amis de l’artiste considérèrent celle-ci comme un affront à la pensée anticléricale de Riopelle. Ce dernier sera inhumé au cimetière Côte-des-Neiges de Montréal. En son hommage, avec respect, nous déposons sur sa dernière demeure, une fleur de lys.
"« Souvent j'entre à l'atelier, en fait j'y vais presque tous les jours, j'ouvre la porte et je la referme, je ne peux rien faire. Mais quand ça marche le temps ne compte plus, je peux en sortir dix heures après, vingt heures après, mais c'est dans un autre état »." - Jean-Paul Riopelle
"« Riopelle est un "trappeur supérieur" dont le territoire imaginaire pour les Indiens, s'ils pouvaient venir regarder, seraient de nouveau chez eux »." - André Breton
"« Riopelle est un géant de l’esprit. Il fait partie, à l’égal de ses amis Breton, Artaud, Beckett, Miró et Giacometti, de l’époque éblouissante et aujourd’hui révolue de l’avant-garde occidentale »." - Hélène de Billy
"« La mémoire visuelle engrange les images de la nature et les émotions qu’elle suscite »." - Joan Mitchell
"« Quand j'hésite, je ne peins pas et quand je peins, je n'hésite pas »." - Jean-Paul Riopelle
"« La nature reste une énigme : on ne la perçoit jamais dans sa totalité. Elle est comme moi, toujours en train de partir »." - Jean-Paul Riopelle
Notes of biography
Jean-Paul Riopelle was born in Montreal, Canada in 1923. From childhood he starts to draw and paint. He studies at the Polytechnic School, then spends a brief and disappointing period at the School of Fine Arts and at the Furniture School in Montreal. Riopelle trains mainly under Paul-Emile Borduas who is at the top of the avant-garde and surrealismists. Riopelle produces his first abstract works in the middle of the 40’s, during which time the artist participates in with a group who called themselves the ‘Canadian Automatists’. He starts to exhibit with the group in 1946.
He moves to Paris where he is quickly recognized. He meets Andre Breton, signs the surrealist leaflet ‘Rupture Inaugurale’ (Inaugural Rupture). In 1947 he drafts the essay of the manifesto of the Canadian Automatists ‘Refus global’ (Global refusal). He briefly associates with the surrealists and exhibits with the group in 1947. Riopelle though has more affinity to the Lyrical Abstraction group. His first solo exhibition takes place at the Dragon Gallery in Paris in 1949. In this same year, he participates in the exhibition ‘Vehemences Confrontees’ (Confronted Vehemence) with Pollock, Rothko, Mathieu, Sam Francis, Tobey, Hans Hartung, etc.
At the beginning of the 50’s, Pierre Loeb, the reputed gallery owner, buys all of his works. From 1952 to1953 Jean-Paul Riopelle exhibits in Paris with Pierre Loeb, Jacques Dubourg and Jean Fournier, and in New York at the Pierre Matisse Gallery. Thanks to his friendship with the art historian George Duthuit, he meets everyone who is important in the Parisian art world (Sam Francis, Mathieu, Nicolas de Staël, etc.) and in the literary world (Artaud, Beckett and Aime Cesaire). He is now considered as of the of he most important painters of the School of Paris.
In the 60’s, Riopelle diversifies his means of expression, utilizing ink on paper, watercolor, lithography, collage and oil. It is in the middle of the 60’s that the artists starts to collaborate with the Maeght Gallery, he will from now on exhibit here regularly. His international career takes on a whole new dimension. Important retrospectives of his work are organized worldwide. He receives the Paul-Emile Borduas prize in 1981.
Riopelle leaves France in 1989. In 1992, an homage to the American painter Joan Mitchell who has just died and who has been his friends for 25 years, he executes one of his last opulent works ‘Hommage to Rosa Luxemburg’. Riopelle is considered as a giant in the history of art in the second half of the 20th century; his works can be seen in the best museum collections around the world.
Jean-Paul Riopelle lived in Quebec during the last years of his life and died on Crane Island in 2002.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Catalogue Raisonné 1939-1953. Huiles sur toile - Oeuvres sur papier – Sculptures », Tome 1, François Odermatt et autres, Hibou Editeurs, Montréal, 1999 * « Catalogue raisonné de Jean Paul Riopelle, Tome 2, 1954-1959», Yseult Riopelle, Hibou Ed., Montréal, 2004
*« Les estampes », Yseult Riopelle, Hibou Editeurs, Montréal, 2005
* « Catalogue raisonné de Jean Paul Riopelle, Tome 3, 1960-1965 », Yseult Riopelle et Tanguy Riopelle, Hibou Ed., Montréal, 2009
* « Catalogue raisonné de Jean Paul Riopelle, Tome 4, 1961-1971 », Yseult Riopelle, Tanguy Riopelle et F. M. Gagnon, Hibou Ed., Montréal, 2014
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Riopelle - Peintures 1946-1977 », G. Duthuit et aut., C. Pompidou, Paris, 1981
- « D’hier et d’aujourd’hui », G. Vigneault et H. Bellet, Ed. Maeght, Paris, 1990
- « Riopelle - Oeuvres 1966-1977 », Roger Bordier et aut., Ed. Maeght, Paris, 1991
- « J.-P. Riopelle, La traversée du paysage », R. Viau, Ed. Léméac, Montreal, 2002
- « Jean Paul Riopelle », Revue Connaissance des arts, Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal, 2002
- « Jean Paul Riopelle », René Viau, Ed. Musée du Québec, 2003
- « Chez Riopelle. Visites d Atelier », Lise Gauvin, Ed. de L'Hexagone, Montréal, 2005
- « R., Mémoires d'ateliers », G. Daigneault et Y. Riopelle, Kétoupa Ed., Montréal, 2010
- « Riopelle, les migrations du bestiaire», S. Blais et autres, René Viau, Kétoupa Ed., 2014
- « Riopelle au Cap Tourmente… », René Viau, Kétoupa Ed., 2016
To read from the artist :
- « Riopelle, Rebeyrolles, Bury, Léger », Du côté de chez Maeght, in O.N.R.F, 1973
- « Entretiens avec Jean-Paul Riopelle », Gilbert Érouart, Liber, Montréal, 1993
Website :
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Stamp by Jean-Paul Riopelle
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Jean-Paul Riopelle
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Malade depuis plusieurs années, ne se déplaçant pratiquement plus, le peintre Jean-Paul Riopelle est mort le 12 mars 2002, dans sa maison de l'île aux Grues, à l'est de Québec (Canada) ; il avait 78 ans. Le 18, jour où il neigea beaucoup, des funérailles eurent lieu à l'église Immaculée-Conception, dans le quartier du plateau Mont-Royal (Montréal) où le peintre avait grandi. Cette cérémonie entraîna une grande contreverse, car nombre des amis de l’artiste considérèrent celle-ci comme un affront à la pensée anticléricale de Riopelle. Ce dernier sera inhumé au cimetière Côte-des-Neiges de Montréal. En son hommage, avec respect, nous déposons sur sa dernière demeure, une fleur de lys.
"« Souvent j'entre à l'atelier, en fait j'y vais presque tous les jours, j'ouvre la porte et je la referme, je ne peux rien faire. Mais quand ça marche le temps ne compte plus, je peux en sortir dix heures après, vingt heures après, mais c'est dans un autre état »." - Jean-Paul Riopelle
"« Riopelle est un "trappeur supérieur" dont le territoire imaginaire pour les Indiens, s'ils pouvaient venir regarder, seraient de nouveau chez eux »." - André Breton
"« Riopelle est un géant de l’esprit. Il fait partie, à l’égal de ses amis Breton, Artaud, Beckett, Miró et Giacometti, de l’époque éblouissante et aujourd’hui révolue de l’avant-garde occidentale »." - Hélène de Billy
"« La mémoire visuelle engrange les images de la nature et les émotions qu’elle suscite »." - Joan Mitchell
"« Quand j'hésite, je ne peins pas et quand je peins, je n'hésite pas »." - Jean-Paul Riopelle
"« La nature reste une énigme : on ne la perçoit jamais dans sa totalité. Elle est comme moi, toujours en train de partir »." - Jean-Paul Riopelle
Art movements
+ SCHOOL OF PARIS / 1945-1960 / Jean Degottex, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Staël, etc.
+ LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM / 1950-1960 / Jackson Pollock, Emil Schumacher, etc.
All art movements
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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past.
These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier
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