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Magnificent painting!
A student at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rouen in 1921-19221, Georges Breuil was, however, also the friend and student of Georges Braque.
After the five years of the Second World War where he was a prisoner in Germany, in 1947 he embarked on the path of abstraction1. It was on the advice of Georges Braque and Jacques Villon that he exhibited for the first time at the Colette Allendy Gallery in Paris in 19532.
Based at 1717, rue de l'Église in Bois-Guillaume3, in 1965 he was the author of an essay entitled Sublimation of abstract art where he defined “the genesis of a work as a thought, the first motor of the creation which becomes an act”4, offering to the Bénézit dictionary to restore that “he contributed to understanding abstract painting in the Rouennais region
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