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 ecole 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,He studied under Paul-Émile Borduas in the 1940s and was a member of Les Automatistes movement. Breaking with traditional conventions in 1945 after reading André Breton's Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, he began experimenting with non-objective (or non-representational) painting. He was one of the signers of the Refus global manifesto. In 1947 Riopelle moved to Paris and continued his career as an artist, where, after a brief association with the surrealists (he was the only Canadian to exhibit with them) he capitalized on his image as a "wild Canadian". His first solo exhibition took place in 1949 at the Surrealist meeting place, Galerie La Dragonne in Paris.

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