Bronze with brown-green patina by Jean-Paul Riopelle – Titled: Totem Owl, 1976

Original bronze by Jean-Paul Riopelle – Titled: Totem Owl, 1976

Bronze cast using the lost-wax and chiseling technique* with a brown-green patina, signed and numbered on the front of the base. One of an edition of 8 bronzes and 5 artists’ proofs bronzes.

Clementi Foundry, Italy

Dimensions: 36 x 19 x 23 cm – 14.2 x 7.5 x 9 in. – Without the base.

Provenance: Galerie Lelong, Paris

Artwork is not available anymore! Sold – Thank you.

*Note: Chiseling the bronze castings is a technique developed by the artist Sam Szafran. Sam Szafran became friends with Riopelle during the 1960s, and they worked together on projects at the Meudon Berriac Foundry.

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