JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE
BIOGRAPHY
Jean-Paul Riopelle was a Canadian painter, printmaker and sculptor who was born in Montreal in 1923 and died in 2002 in Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues.
At an early age, he began taking drawing classes with Montreal artist Henri Bisson. Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, he took part in the first exhibition of the Automatistes group before moving to Paris, where he frequented the Surrealists.
With his centenary in 2023, a number of events have taken place, including an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou and major Canadian museums.
2023
- Permanant collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Studio Fragrance, as part of Riopelle 100, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
- Encountering northern territories and aboriginal cultures, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada
- Encountering northern territories and aboriginal cultures, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
- Mitchell. Riopelle. Nothing in moderation, Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec Canada
- Riopelle au Cap Tourmente, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Quebec, Canada
- Jean-Paul Riopelle. Métamorphoses, Charles-Baillairgé Pavilion, Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada
- Riopelle. Works from the collection of Power Corporation and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia and Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
- Jean Paul Riopelle, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
- Jean Paul Riopelle. Peinture 1946-1977, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
- Jean Paul Riopelle. Peinture 1946-1977, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
1979
- Works with Hans Spinner on a wall of 61 ceramic elements for the Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
1967
- Retrospective at the Musée du Québec (now the Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts), Quebec, Canada
1963
- Retrospective, National Gallery of Canada (now the Canada National Museum of Fine Arts), Ottawa, Canada
1962
- Jean Paul Riopelle. Painting and sculpture, Venice Bienale, Venice, Italy
- Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdom
- Œuvres récentes, Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris, France
1953
- Younger European Painters, Guggenheim museum, New York, USA
- Galerie Pierre Matisse, New York, USA
- Galerie la Dragonne de Nina Dausset, Paris, France
- Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris, France
-61st Spring Show of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada