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OIL ON CANVAS 100X65CM DATED 75. BEARING A WORKSHOP INVENTORY NUMBER 372, and titled "LE JOURNAL ET SES LECTEURS".
Gérard Eppelé was born in 1929 in Cherbourg.
He spent his childhood in Morocco.
Back in France in 1942, he began his studies in a technical college and then entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse.
Spends two years at the National Tapestry School of Aubusson.
Enters in 1952 as a painter decorator in the cinema and works mainly for the decorator Max Douy.
Forced to stop for health reasons, he moved to the south-east of France in 1959.
The decisive meeting takes place in Vence with Dubuffet, who takes him on as an assistant and allows him to make his first exhibition at the Chave gallery.
Since that date, he has not stopped painting, drawing, sculpting while teaching at the Villa Arson until 1992.
Gérard Eppelé observes, analyzes and tries to understand human nature through a personal story that goes back to childhood. This exceptional character who has haunted all his work since the 1950s, "the man in the black sweater", invites us to look at this crazy world, a blind gaze exploring the darkest images of our reality.
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