Roger-Edgar Gillet

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Roger-Edgar Gillet (born July 10, 1924 in Paris , France , † October 2, 2004 in Saint-Suliac ( Département Ille-et-Vilaine , Brittany ), France) was a French painter , theater decorator and architect .

life and work

Roger-Edgar Gillet is one of the most important representatives of abstract painting after the Second World War . He studied at the École Boulle in Paris from 1939 to 1943. In 1944 he enrolled at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs . He worked as a set designer , theater decorator and architect . From 1946 to 1948 he was a teacher at the Académie Jullian . He was awarded the Prix ​​Fénéon in 1954 and the Catherwood Prize in 1955excellent in the USA. Roger-Edgar Gillet was a rather discreet, but nevertheless very influential representative of modern art in France. He preferred the warm earth colors in his paintings, which he used abstract expressionistically .

Important exhibitions

  • 1953: first solo exhibition at Galerie Craven , Paris
  • 1959: Participation in documenta 2 in Kassel
  • 1987: Retrospective at the CNAP Paris
  • 1990: Retrospective at the Museum of Art Oklahoma University and the Cultural Center of Scotland, Arizona

Works in museums and collections

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literature

  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959

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