Jean Paul Riopelle: The Artist's Materials

$40.00 at The Getty Museum.

Marie-Claude Corbeil, Kate Helwig, and Jennifer Poulin Jean Paul Riopelle (1923–2002) was one of the most important Canadian artists of the twentieth century, yet he is relatively unknown in the U.S. He began his career in Montreal in the 1940s, where he played a role in the influential Automatist movement, and established his reputation in the burgeoning art scene of postwar Paris, where his circle included André Breton, Samuel Beckett, and Sam Francis. During his career, Riopelle produced over six thousand…