“Album 67” is the very first portfolio created by the artist Jean-Paul Riopelle. It contains 15 lithographs in panoramic format, without any justification or explanations. According to author Gilles Daigneault, this album can be described as a “small nested exhibition”. He also notes that it offers a sort of synthesis of the various moods present in Riopelle’s abstract workup to that point in time-Translated from French. Source DAIGNEAULT Gilles, Riopelle et la gravure, une rencontre, Catalogue raisonné des estampes de Jean-Paul RIOPELLE, Riopelle Yseult, Riopelle Tanguy, Hibou éditeurs, page 26.  

Yseult Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Catalogue raisonné des estampes, Hibou Éditeurs, Montreal, 2005, p. 169

Album 67, 1967

Album of 15 original color lithographs presented
in a full-cloth bound slipcase
Slipcase covered in off-white cloth with inner flap
Riopelle’s signature in burgundy red on the cover
15 single sheets of plates. 40 × 80 cm
Housing: beige linen-covered case with flap bearing
the title in brown on the cover. 42 × 82 cm
Edition: 85 copies on Vélin d’Arches paper, including
75 copies numbered 1/75 to 75/75 and 10 copies
outside the commercial edition marked H.C.

Imprimerie ARTE Adrien Maeght
Maeght Éditeur, Paris

Public collections:
HMSG, 14/75 ; MBAM, 20/75 ; MNBA, 32/75 ; MACM, 34/75 ;
BNQ, 75/75 and H.C. ; BNF, H.C.

Exhibitions:
1967 Paris boutique, Gal. Maeght, Musée du Québec
1969 Riopelle, Gal. Champagne, Maison Joliette, Quebec
2002 Riopelle, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, cat. no. 50, pp. 79–80
2005–2006 Jean Paul Riopelle. Impressions sans fin, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, cat. nos. 1 to 15

Bibliography:
Lithographies et eaux-fortes, Maeght Éditeur, 1971, pp. 219–224

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