| JEAN-PAUL
RIOPELLE (1923 - 2002)
Jean Paul Riopelle was born in Montreal in
1923. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal
from 1943-44 and had his first solo exhibition in 1945. In 1946
he participated in the first Automatist Exhibition in Montreal.
He and Leduc organized an automatists' exhibition at Galerie
de Luxembourg in Paris in 1947, and the following year Riopelle
took up permanent residence there.
Subsequently, Riopelle's work has been extensively exhibited
internationally, including the Guggenheim International and
the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York; Museum of Modern Art
in Brazil; the Galerie d'Art Moderne in Basel, Switzerland;
the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; the XXVI Venice Biennial
in Italy, and the XXXI International Biennial of Art in Italy
where he was awarded the Unesco prize in 1962.
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