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Artist or Maker: Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002)

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Description: Flèches
signed and dated 'Riopelle 50' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 25 5/8in. (54 x 65cm.)
Painted in 1950

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Provenance: Georges Duthuit, Paris.
Anon. Sale, Christie's London, 27 June 1996, lot 9.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Jean-Paul Riopelle, September-October 1958, no. 7.

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Published: Y. Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle catalogue raisonné, 1939-1953, vol. I, Montreal 1999, no. 1950.043H (illustrated in colour, p. 309).

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