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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
L’hommage a Rosa Luxemburg
Alternate Title:
Hommage to Rosa Luxemburg
Image View:
Detail, silhouettes of birds are mixed with everyday objects
Creator:
Jean-Paul Riopelle (Canadian painter, 1923-2002)
Location:
repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 1996.96
Location Note:
Pavillon Pierre Lassonde; From exhibition, Mitchell/Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation (October 12, 2017-January 7, 2018)
GPS:
46.798889-71.224722
Date:
1992 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Canadian
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
mural painting (visual work)
Work Type 2:
triptych
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
acrylic paint and spray paint on canvas
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
155 cm (height, 1st panel) x 1424 cm (width, 1st panel)
Subjects:
abstraction; animal; contemporary (1960 to present); cycles or series; muse; birds; found objects
Description:
A large triptych of three panels (all 155 cm height, but widths of 1424, 1247, and 1368 cm each). The work is a narrative sequence of 30 paintings (sections) forming a triptych more than 40 meters in length. It is in a sense Riopelle’s legacy work, which he began in his studio on Île-aux-Oies in November 1992 after learning of the death in Paris of his former companion, the American painter Joan Mitchell (1926-1992). The title of this piece comes from the anecdote according to which Riopelle, when they were together, called Mitchell his “Rosa Malheur” (“Rosa Misfortune”), a reference to Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), a brilliant painter of animals whose last name means “good fortune”. Rosa was also the first name of the German Communist Party activist Rosa Luxemburg, who was famous for her coded prison letters. (Source: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [website]; www.mnbaq.org/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-RIOPELLE-TRL-B05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

L’hommage a Rosa Luxemburg