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Jean-Paul Riopelle,
GOQ (
7 October 1923 -
12 March 2002) was a
painter and
sculptor from
Quebec,
Canada.
Born in Montreal, he studied under
Paul-Émile Borduas in the
1940s and was a member of
Les Automatistes movement. He was one of the signers of the
Refus global manifesto. In
1949 he moved to
Paris and continued his career as an artist, where he commercialized on his image as a "wild Canadian". His life and artistic partner was the American painter,
Joan Mitchell. They kept separate homes and studios near
Giverny, where
Monet had lived. They influenced one another greatly, as much intellectually as artistically, but their relationship was a stormy one, fueled by alcohol. At times their styles were remarkably similar.
Riopelle's style changed gradually from
Surrealism to
abstract expressionism, in which he used myriad soft cubes of color, applied as flat planes with a palette knife, on large canvases to create powerful atmospheres.
In
1969 he was made a Companion of the
Order of Canada, and began to spend more time in
Canada. He was specially recognized by UNESCO for his work. One of his largest compositions was originally intended for the Toronto airport, but is now in the
Opéra Bastille in
Paris. In
1988 he was made an Officer of the
National Order of Quebec and was promoted to Grand Officer in
1994. His relationship with Mitchell soured badly, and he returned to Canada permanently. He was the grand old man of 20th century Canadian painting and enjoyed the role.
There was a bitter legal dispute over his will between his survivors, pitting his children against his life partner. Another controversy involved the disposition of his work
La Joute, a
public sculpture in Montreal.
In 2000 Riopelle was inducted into
Canada's Walk of Fame.
In June, 2006 the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts organized a retrospective exhibition which was presented at the
State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Musee Cantini in Marseilles, France. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has a number of his works, spanning his entire career, in their permanent collection.
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