Roger-Edgar Gillet

Born in Paris. After studying at the École Boulle and the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Roger Edgar Gillet became one of the lyrical abstraction painters that the critic Michel Tapié referred to when describing « art informel » in his 1952 work « Un art autre ». From the 1960s onwards, Gillet moved away from abstraction and looked for a new 'expressive' representation of the human element with portraits and groups in the tradition of painters such as Goya, Daumier and Ensor.