“If art lovers and art experts feel admiration, emotion and pleasure for Riopelle’s oil paintings, it is largely because of their materiality. Volume, color, glossiness and matteness all contribute to create a harmonious whole.”
—Marie-Claude Corbeil
- Provenance
  Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
  Robertson F. Alford, Mill Neck, New York (acquired from the above in 1966)
  Mary Paige Alford, Norfolk, Connecticut (by descent from the above)
  Estate of Mary Paige Alford, Norfolk, Connecticut (by descent from the above)
  Forum Gallery, New York
  Jack and Sandra Terner, Los Angeles (acquired from the above on April 23, 2011)
  Thence by descent to the present owner
- Literature
  Yseult Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle, Catalogue raisonné, Tome 3 1960–1965, Quebec, 2009, no. 1960.037H.1960, p. 84 (illustrated)

Property from the Terner Family Collection, Los Angeles

Jean-Paul Riopelle

Cold Climate

signed "Riopelle" lower right
oil on canvas
18 x 25 in. (45.7 x 63.5 cm)
Painted in 1960.

Estimate
$70,000 - 100,000

Sold for $101,600

Contact Specialist

Annie Dolan
NY Head of Auctions and Specialist, Head of Sale, Morning Session
212 940 1288
adolan@phillips.com

New York Auction 15 May 2024