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Gérard WillemenotLa Conquête du Ciel Conquest of the Skies Surrealism Contemporary Space Creature2025
2025
$38,285.91
£28,583.03
€32,000
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A$57,867.58
CHF 30,481.86
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NOK 390,468.98
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La Conquête du Ciel Conquest of the Skies Surrealism Contemporary Space Creature
Gérard Willemenot was born on February 11, 1943.
World War II and his father's deportation to Mauthausen had a profound impact on his childhood. He was the eldest of nine children. Early on, he clashed with the French education system, studied art, and graduated as a decorator from the School of Applied Arts before becoming a qualified architect and urban planner—professions he practiced, somewhat by accident, for twenty-five years!
His childhood and his years in architecture made him a chronic outsider who hated his time. Unable to recreate the world, he painted it in his own unconventional and timeless style. Willemenot hated so-called contemporary painting, which he considered an institutional hoax.
Willemenot's painting is simple. It is tempera (a work he makes himself). This technique, which is now disappearing, is imbued with an immoderate love for the Middle Ages and its mysticism, to which must be added the influence of some of the great masters of the past, such as Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel, and Patinir, but also that of contemporary painters such as Albert Drachkovitch and Jacques Poirier, whom he knew well and admired, both timeless artists.
His work mainly explores the themes of love, humor, and death.
Gérard Willemenot's works are present in the collections of many collectors around the world.
- Creator:Gérard Willemenot (1943, French)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 31.89 in (81 cm)Width: 31.89 in (81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Utrecht, NL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1597217188042
Gérard Willemenot
Gérard Willemenot (1943, Paris, France) graduated as an architect at the School of Art in Paris. After working asan architect for twenty years, he decided to dedicate himself full-time to an old hobby: painting. Ever since his first exhibition, Willemenot knew he had taken the right decision. He works with egg-tempera on panel. Inspiration sources for Willemenot are old masters as Bosch, Bruegel and Memling. The subjects and technique of these old masters extremely fascinate him. The still life paintings and the use of trompe l'oeil by the Flemish painters of the 16th and 17th century inspire him as well. Gérard Willemenot's work is represented exclusively represented by Morren Galleries in the Netherlands.
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