RIOPELLE "LE SABLIER 3" LITHO, 1979 French painter "Double X"

"Double X"

In the early 1980's Charles Pachter did numerous portrait drawings of cultural luminaries in Toronto

He uses its motif to explore pattern

The work's title

RIOPELLE "LE SABLIER 3" LITHO, 1979 French painter "Double X"Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 2002) is arguably the most successful post war abstract painter from Canada. While Americans have traditionally favored Jackson Pollock as the most influential Abstract Expressionist of the 20th century, Riopelle's stature in Europe is of competing importance for his version of 'automatic' action painting. His early canvases were densely intricate webs of constructed color created by using a palette knife. His later work both