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Georges Hillaireau, born in Saint-Ouen in 1884 and deceased in Paris in 1954, was a French painter and draughtsman. He began with press illustration and caricature, sometimes signing his work “G. Illero”. His involvement with circles of humorous illustrators preceded a painting career that gained greater visibility during the 1940s and early 1950s.
Portraits, conversational scenes and compositions reveal an approach that simplifies forms and reorganises pictorial space. His 1947 Portrait of Serge Charchoune belongs to the Centre Pompidou collection. The LaM holds works including Femme au perroquet, La Conversation and La Pharmacie, examples of his varied subject matter. His inclusion in Younger European Painters at the Guggenheim in 1953 also placed his painting within an international presentation of contemporary European artistic production.
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Piguet
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Oil on canvas
Les joueurs de cartes
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2024-11-28 — 2024-12-11
Published result : 400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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