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21 - Gaston-Louis Roux (1904–1988) Composition 1928 Oil on canvas…
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Estimate €8,000 - €12,000
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Gaston-Louis Roux (1904–1988) Composition 1928 Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, Galerie Simon label on the back of the stretcher 97 × 130 cm Provenance: > Galerie Simon > Private collection Condition report: Restorations Trained with the Nabis at the Académie Ranson, where he was taught by, amongst others, Maurice Denis, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Paul Sérusier and Édouard Vuillard, Gaston-Louis Roux became Raoul Dufy’s assistant set designer in 1922. In 1927, through André Masson, he met Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler, who was then representing the Cubist painters Picasso, Braque, Gris and Derain and who ran the Galerie Simon. The gallery owner offered the artist an exclusive contract and, in 1929, organised his first solo exhibition, with a preface by Roger Vitrac, who saw him as ‘the great painter of the movement’ and spoke of his ‘monstrous automatons with invisible mechanisms’. However, the economic crisis forced the gallery to gradually cease its purchases, and in 1933 Kahnweiler informed him that he could no longer acquire his works, whilst adding: ‘it is not your painting that is at fault: I still love it just as much’. In 1947, the Simon Gallery – which had become the Louise Leiris Gallery – dedicated a new exhibition to him, with a preface by Georges Bataille. In it, he highlighted the difficulty and torment that accompany the artist’s work. Roux himself would say: “A painting that looks happy is one that has caused its creator the greatest difficulty and the greatest torment.” Dated 1928, the work we are presenting today thus belongs to a particularly significant period in Gaston-Louis Roux’s emergence on the Parisian art scene.
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About the sale 1900–1950: Diverse forms of modernity: Art Nouveau & Art Deco • Cubism • Suprematism • Posters
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Auction time 10/10/2026 at 10:30 AM
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