“One will also recognize an almost instinctive science which, one knows not how, manages to link the thousands of touches of color taken up by the brush from the pot, or squirted from the tube, splashed on the canvas, then smeared by the knife into a flawless tapestry - [...] their precise contours arrange themselves to form an uninterrupted tide [...]”

A Message from Alan Klinkhoff

Landing is the finest Jean Paul Riopelle painting our family has had the pleasure of offering for sale over the soon to be 70 years we have been active in the art business.  Its kaleidoscope of color and geometry of brushwork in this most elegant and rare format result in offering the greatest of visual pleasure.

To what we can attribute the strength and vitality of Landing and other celebrated paintings of the 1955-57 vintage such as Gravité (1956) at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and L’Oiseleur (1955), Terroir (1956) & Avalanche (1957) in the collection of Power Corporation of Canada, we can only speculate.  Riopelle was enjoying a series of important exhibitions with Pierre Matisse Gallery. There was also the excitement of his still discreet relationship with Joan Mitchell.

Landing is a splendid painting of great quality and one in outstanding restorative condition by the master, the only Canadian artist of elite standing in art markets internationally.