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Jean-Paul Riopelle traveled to the Canadian Arctic in 1977 with Claude Duthuit (1931 - 2011), an underwater archaeologist and grandson of Henri Matisse. Riopelle's Iceberg series, began shortly after this trip. The genius of the Icebergs is that they extend Riopelle's lifelong conversation between European modernism and his home, and between abstraction and figuration. The series evokes both natural forces and the artist's ongoing connections to avant-garde European painting. The Icebergs are figurative, though in a way closely allied to his longstanding abstract practices. Iceberg IV, as a prime example of Riopelle's work at this time, is thus both courageously new and continuous with his reputation as one of the twentieth century's most accomplished abstract painters.

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