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Roger-Edgar GILLET (1924-2004) Composition, 1961 Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 100 x 73 cm Provenance : Collection Gildo Caputo, co-director of Galerie de France, Paris (annotation on the back on the stretcher). This work is referenced in the digital archives of the Fonds Gillet. We would like to thank Madame Marion Gillet Guigon for the information she provided. A certificate from Madame Marion Gillet Guigon may be issued at the purchaser's request and expense. "This is one of Gillet's earliest portraits, sometimes defined as "veiled figures". They form the hinge between abstraction and figuration, for afterwards, as he put it, Gillet 'tyrannized portraiture' for 40 years, exhibiting at his friend and dealer Jean Pollak's Galerie Ariel." Marion Gillet Guigon
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Roger-Edgar GILLET (1924-2004) Composition, 1961 Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 100 x 73 cm Provenance : Collection Gildo Caputo, co-director of Galerie de France, Paris (annotation on the back on the stretcher). This work is referenced in the digital archives of the Fonds Gillet. We would like to thank Madame Marion Gillet Guigon for the information she provided. A certificate from Madame Marion Gillet Guigon may be issued at the purchaser's request and expense. "This is one of Gillet's earliest portraits, sometimes defined as "veiled figures". They form the hinge between abstraction and figuration, for afterwards, as he put it, Gillet 'tyrannized portraiture' for 40 years, exhibiting at his friend and dealer Jean Pollak's Galerie Ariel." Marion Gillet Guigon
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