(Montreal 1923–2002 Ile-aux-Grues)
Untitled, 1964, signed and dated, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, framed

Provenance:
Galleria d’Arte Narciso, Turin (label on the reverse)
Remo Morone Collection, Turin
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Turin, Jean Paul Riopelle, Galleria d’Arte Narciso, 20 March-16 April 1975, exh. cat. no. 1 with ill.
Turin, L’occhio del collezionista oltr’Alpe, Galleria d’Arte Narciso, 25 January-28 February 1979, exh. cat. no. 37 with ill.
Toulouse, Espace d’Art Contemporain, 1997, exh. cat. no. 32

Literature:
Y. Riopelle, Catalogue raisonné de Jean Paul Riopelle, Hibou Editeurs, Montréal 2009, vol. III, p. 214, no. 1964.028H.1964 with ill.

" I have to launch myself, to find the angle of attack before really starting to paint. Then, island or mainland, there is no more notion of time. No more distinction between day and night, between evening and morning; noon equals midnight… When I paint, it is no longer the sun that gives rhythm to my daily life, but the technical aspects. The colors that I ordered and that don’t arrive, the paper that I absolutely want but that can only be found in Paris… Too often, the disappointment of not being able to use the material of the past"
Érouart-Riopelle interviews – conducted in the fall of 1992 and winter of 1993 on Île-aux-Oies, in Gilbert Érouart, Jean Paul Riopelle, Donald Winkler, and Fernand Séguin. Riopelle in Conversation. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1995, p. 36. Trans. Donald Winkler.