Richard Montpetit

Canadian (1950)

Richard Montpetit is a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Richard Montpetit's estimated art value is C$1,000 (*)

Richard Montpetit's work could be available for sale through Art Galleries or at public auction with prices in the range of C$100 - C$10,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to Richard Montpetit (1950) was C$6,490 - paid for "L'été au Square Phillips" at Heffel in Vancouver on Thu, Feb 25, 2016.
ArtValue.ca has 54 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$100 to C$10,000.

Cowley Abbott Auction House Biography and Notes

Born in Montreal in 1950, the son of artist Rolland Montpetit, Richard was initiated to painting by the age of twenty. He presented his first solo exhibition of impressionist paintings in September 1980 in Montreal. In 1985, Richard explored with Antoine Bittar, the language of sketching. It was a turning point. They travelled enthusiastically to paint in France, in Venice, in Mexico, in the Antilles, Portugal and Morocco, bringing back with them much more relaxed and expressive paintings. In 1988, Richard Montpetit returned to work in his studio and began to tackle large formats as if they were sketches, in quest of a certain spontaneous type of brush stroke. On this impulse he explored abstraction along with a simplified figuration. Represented in galleries since 1979, he participated in several group exhibitions and many solo exhibitions, one of which was a retrospective exhibition at the Marc-Aurèle Fortin Museum in the winter of 1987, which attracted several thousands of people.

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