Untitled (Bridgehampton series) - 1960
Riopelle and his companion, Joan Mitchell, spent the summer 1960 in Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York. It was apparently during this stay that he made the decision to integrate sculpture into hi practice. If the painting Helice – Cythere, hung nearby, brings the Mediterranean Sea to mind, these two drawings featured black-ink whirlpools on watercolour backgrounds – installed here might evoke the Atlantic Ocean. The lines and marks seem to advance and retreat like waves washing up on the American east coast.
Untitled (Bridgehampton series) - 1960
Riopelle and his companion, Joan Mitchell, spent the summer 1960 in Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York. It was apparently during this stay that he made the decision to integrate sculpture into hi practice. If the painting Helice – Cythere, hung nearby, brings the Mediterranean Sea to mind, these two drawings featured black-ink whirlpools on watercolour backgrounds – installed here might evoke the Atlantic Ocean. The lines and marks seem to advance and retreat like waves washing up on the American east coast.