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Alvaro Guillot Oil Painting 1963, French Castle#2137799

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Alvaro Guillot Oil Painting 1963, French Castle#2137799
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Artist: Alvaro Guillot

Title: Castle

Year: circa 1963

Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed

Size: 30" x 24"

Frame: 37" x 31"





Alvaro Guillot, the son of a diplomat, has
traveled throughout the world. He lived the life of the existentialist
with the young painters in St. Germaine de Pres. Through his
friend, artist Charles Levier, he was influenced to pick up
the brush and paint. But branching out into his own changing
style, he experimented with natural surrealism that grows with
his development in later pictures into abstract realism.</p>
Guillot has been described as a Surrealist
with blocks of color and the arrangement of shapes within the
canvas rather than in the nature of the subject matter itself.</p>
In his work, a house becomes less important
as a house, and more important as a house, and more important
as a pattern of interrelated colors and shapes. This is evident
throughout all of his landscapes, and more particularly in his
studies of still objects. </p>
In the still lifes, he works in patterns, fusing
them, and relating them by virtue of shape alone.</p>
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1963</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:24</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Alvaro Guillot Oil Painting 1963, French Castle</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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