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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
La Ligne d’eau
Alternate Title:
The Water Line
Image View:
Detail, left panel of diptych
Creator:
Jean-Paul Riopelle (Canadian painter, 1923-2002)
Location:
exhibition: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada)
Location Note:
Pavillon Pierre Lassonde; From exhibition, Mitchell/Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation (October 12, 2017-January 7, 2018)
GPS:
46.798889-71.224722
Date:
1977 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Canadian
Style Period:
Lyrical Abstraction; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
diptych
Work Type 2:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
300 cm (height) x 200 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art; trees; water
Description:
From Collection Cirque du Soleil, Montréal, Canada. Riopelle was French-Canadian. He studied under Paul-Émile Borduas in the 1940s and was a member of Les Automatistes movement. During the 1950s, Riopelle developed his well-known, mature style of creating large, color "mosaic" paintings executed with a palette knife and by squeezing colors onto the canvas directly from the tube. (Source: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [website]; www.mnbaq.org/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-RIOPELLE-LLD-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

La Ligne d’eau