The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec owns one of the most representative collections of the Jean-Paul Riopelle’s entire body of work, with pieces dating from 1944 to 1992. The exhibition offers an overview of this impressive collection, one of whose highlights is the spectacular Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg.
Born in Montréal in 1923, Jean-Paul Riopelle is one Québec’s best-known painters on the international scene. He participated in the first Automatist events in 1946 and in 1948 was a signatory of the Refus global manifesto. In the 1950s he was a part of major developments in international contemporary art. His works are true sites of energy, tensions and vibrations. From the 1970s to the late 1980s Riopelle divided his time between his Lac Masson studio in the Laurentians and his residences and studios in France. He spent the last years of his life on Isle-aux-Grues, where he passed away in 2002.
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Jean-Paul Riopelle, Espagne, 1951. Oil on canvas, 150 x 232 cm. MNBAQ Coll., purchased with a special contribution from the ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the "Cultural Property Export and Import Act" and contributions from the MNBAQ, the Fondation du MNBAQ and the Friends of the MNBAQ
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