Jean-Paul Riopelle

Jean-Paul Riopelle
Born	(1923-10-07)October 7, 1923 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	March 12, 2002(2002-03-12) (aged 78) Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, Quebec, Canada
Known for	Painter, sculptor, lithographer
Movement	Les Automatistes Lyrical abstraction Tachisme
Partners	Françoise Lespérance ​ ​ (m. 1946; div. 1953)​ , Joan Mitchell
Awards	Order of Canada (Companion) National Order of Quebec (Grand Officer) Guggenheim International Award exhibition in 1958

Jean-Paul Riopelle, CC GOQ RCA (October 7, 1923 – March 12, 2002) 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 artistic community's refusal of clericalism and provincialism. He is best known for his abstract painting style, in particular his "mosaic" works of the 1950s when he famously abandoned the paintbrush, using only a palette knife to apply paint to canvas, giving his works a distinctive sculptural quality. He became the first Canadian painter since James Wilson Morrice to attain widespread international recognition^[1] and high praise, both during his career and after his death. He was a leading artist of French Lyrical Abstraction.