Marouflage made at the request of Jean-Paul Riopelle by Jean-Paul Ledeur, Paris

Jean-Paul Ledeur is the most renowned contemporary art restorer in France: with thirty years of experience, he benefits from the support of most galleries and maintains friendships with artists such as Yves Klein, Fautrier, Mathieu and Dubuffet, enjoying international fame.

In 1985, Jean-Paul Riopelle was awarded the Grand Prix for painting by the city of Paris. Throughout his career, nature has been a constant inspiration, and his canvases have been populated by numerous animals. In the 1970s, the owl motif was recurrent, but in the following decade, another bird emerged: the white goose. This marked a significant period in the evolution of Riopelle's style, as he constantly evolved his artistic language, creating animal motifs that were "reverential testimonies, poetry, lines, and gestures which, without having any documentary pretension, are no less magnificent metaphors about life imagined by a lively, creative, and playful mind” (Robert Bernier, 1999). Despite changes in his style, Riopelle's major concern for the dialogue between form and content has persisted since his early days as an artist.