, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Untitled, 1953
Jean Paul Riopelle
Canadian, 1923
- 2002
coloured ink on wove paper
74.5 x 107.4 cm
Purchased 1998
National Gallery of Canada (no. 39742)
© Estate of Jean-Paul Riopelle / SODRAC (Montréal)
Inspired by his admiration for Claude Monet's waterlily paintings, Riopelle, by spray painting the colours, captures the water's properties of transparency and infinite depth as well as its shimmering surface. India ink, applied in daubs and dripping lines, replicates the effect of the waterlilies which float on the surface and whose tendrils penetrate the liquid colour. This drawing is an important new direction in the artist's work which will lead him to his masterworks such as "Pavane" 1954.
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