The New Yorker's collaboration with the artist Sophie Calle was just one way in which art was interlaced with his life and work

Works by Jean Paul Riopelle, Emily Carr, Tom Thomson and other titans of Canadian art history contributed to the evening’s total take of C$22.6m

The original budget for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec’s Espace Riopelle addition was $42.5m, but now as construction begins it has ballooned to $84m

The two-part auction, coinciding with the centenary of Riopelle's birth, took in $17.2m in total

Three million of the coins, affectionately known as “toonies”, will go into circulation to mark the artist’s centennial

The pioneering abstract painter’s legacy will be front and centre in Montréal, Ottawa, Paris and elsewhere

From an exhibition celebrating Canadian women artists to a major centennial retrospective of Jean Paul Riopelle, the museum has ambitious plans for 2023

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec has selected Montreal-based firm Les Architectes Fabg to design a pavilion to house its collection of Riopelle works, the largest in the world

The museum, proposed by the artist’s widow, would cost $3.3m and is to be situated on scenic island in the St. Lawrence river

The auctions also saw major results for Alex Colville and Emily Carr, and a new auction record for Rita Letendre

Although comparisons have been drawn to Jackson Pollock but, the Montreal-born painter “felt no special affinities” to the Abstract Expressionist's work