EMILE GILIOLI (1911-1977)
“PAQUIER”
bronze, 70x38x42cm, 1951
signed, and numbered 3 of an edition of 3, also bears foundry name, Susse Fondeur, Paris
EXHIBITED:
“Emile Gilioli rétrospective”, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1979 (illus. p.19)
PROVENANCE:
Duvivier Private Collection, Belgium.
LITERATURE:
“L’Oeil”, 1956 (reproduced on front cover)
“Emile Gilioli”, Éditions Arted, Paris, 1972 (illus. p.95)
“Gilioli sculptures”, J. Dopange, Hazan, 1976 (illus. no. 72)
Gilioli grew up in Nice with Marie Raymond, and fought on the Italian frontier before being de-mobilised. After the war he was commissioned to create a huge monument to the resistance in the Alps at Glières.
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