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LOT 018

AUTO CAS OC QMG RCA SCA
1923 - 2002
Canadian

Le réveil
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1970 and on verso titled, dated on the gallery and exhibition labels and inscribed "Riopelle" and "PH 10876"
72 7/8 x 111 3/4 in, 185 x 284 cm

Estimate: $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CAD

Sold for: $1,201,250

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PROVENANCE
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Sold sale of Post-War & Contemporary Art, Sotheby's London, June 27, 1989, lot 682
A Prominent European Private Collection

LITERATURE
Jean Paul Riopelle, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, 1980, page 36
Yseult Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 4, 1966 – 1971, 2014, reproduced page 231, catalogue #1970.037H.1970

EXHIBITED
Galerie Maeght, Barcelona, Riopelle 75, 1975, catalogue #6
Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Étienne, Jean Paul Riopelle, 1980, catalogue #22
Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, Riopelle à Nancy, 1980 – 1981
40th Venice Biennale, June 13 – September 12, 1982, catalogue #56
Artcurial, Centre d’art plastique contemporain, Paris, Un art autre / un autre art, 1984


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Estimate: $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CAD

All prices are in Canadian Dollars


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