Jean-Paul Riopelle
Canadian painter and sculptor
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Jean-Paul Riopelle, CC GOQ RCA was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the Refus Global, the 1948 manifesto that announced the Quebecois... Wikipedia
Born: October 7, 1923, Montreal, Canada
Died: March 12, 2002 (age 78 years), Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, Canada
Periods: Lyrical abstraction and Tachisme
Known for: Painter, sculptor, lithographer
Awards: Order of Canada (Companion); National Order of Quebec (Grand Officer); Guggenheim International Award exhibition in 1958
Partners: ; Françoise Lespérance (m. 1946; div. 1953),: Joan Mitchell
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