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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 11, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 36 | $****** - ****** | 15 Chevaux Citroën |
paintings
198.2 x 228.6 cm (78.03 x 90 in)
oil on canvas
signed; signed and dated '52', verso
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2005
Basel, Bale Kunsthalle; Neuchâtel, Musée des beaux-arts, Appel, Matta, Moreni, Riopelle, 1959, no. 88 (titled Composition B 2); New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Jean Paul Riopelle, Grands formats 1952 - 1975, April 1977, cat. no. 1, n.p., illustrated in color; Paris, Musée d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Mexico, Musée d'Art Moderne; Caracas, Musée des beaux-arts; Montréal, Québec, Musée du Québec et Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Jean Paul Riopelle, Peinture 1946 - 1977, September 1981 - August 1982, cat. no. 20, p. 39, illustrated (Paris), cat. no. 17, p. 43, illustrated (titled Sans Titre) (Québec); New York, Acquavella Galleries, Jean Paul Riopelle, 1999
Julien Alvard, "D'une nature sans limites à une peinture sans bornes," Art d'aujord'hui, série 4, no. 5, July 1953, p. 4, illustrated; Canada d'aujourd'hui, no. 58, January 1982 (review of 1982 Montréal exhibition); Canadian Art, vol. 9, no. 4, Spring, 1992; Yseult Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle: Catalogue Raisonné Tome I, 1939 - 1953, Montreal, 2004, cat. no. 1952.009H.1952, p. 159 and p. 377, illustrated in color
