Jean Paul Riopelle

Shows, plays and pavilions at home and abroad mark Canadian modernist Jean Paul Riopelle's centennial

The pioneering abstract painter’s legacy will be front and centre in Montréal, Ottawa, Paris and elsewhere

National Gallery of Canada reopens after tumultuous end to 2022

From an exhibition celebrating Canadian women artists to a major centennial retrospective of Jean Paul Riopelle, the museum has ambitious plans for 2023

Québec City museum picks design for $42.5m new pavilion devoted to Jean Paul Riopelle

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec has selected Montreal-based firm Les Architectes Fabg to design a pavilion to house its collection of Riopelle works, the largest in the world

Museum devoted to Jean Paul Riopelle planned for remote Quebec island

The museum, proposed by the artist’s widow, would cost $3.3m and is to be situated on scenic island in the St. Lawrence river

Riopelle outshines Motherwell at Canadian auction house Heffel’s major spring sales

The auctions also saw major results for Alex Colville and Emily Carr, and a new auction record for Rita Letendre

Jean Paul Riopelle abstract canvas sells for a record-setting C$7.4m

Although comparisons have been drawn to Jackson Pollock but, the Montreal-born painter “felt no special affinities” to the Abstract Expressionist's work