Private Collection 23" x 17" Attrib. with certificate was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. He became the first Canadian painter (since James Wilson Morrice) to attain widespread international recognition. Riopelle began drawing lessons in 1933 and continued through 1938. Attributed to Jean Paul Riopelle, He studied engineering, architecture and photography at the école polytechnique in 1941. In 1942 he enrolled at the ecole des beaux-arts de Montreal but shifted his studies to the less academic ecole du Meuble, graduating in 1945.Riopelle's voluminous impasto became just as important as color. His oil painting technique allowed him to paint thick layers, producing peaks and troughs as copious amounts of paint were applied to the surface of the canvas. Riopelle, though, claimed that the heavy impasto was unintentional: "When I begin a painting," he said, "I always hope to complete it in a few strokes, starting with the first colours I daub down anywhere and anyhow. But it never works, so I add more, without realizing it. I have never wanted to paint thickly, paint tubes are much too expensive. But one way or another, the painting has to be done. When I learn how to paint better, I will paint less thickly.

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