Provenance: Private collection Brussels
Frame: Typical original frame with museum glass
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Jean-Jacques Gailliard (1890–1976) received his training at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. The Belgian painter was the son of the renowned Impressionist Franz Gailliard (1861–1932), who gave him drawing lessons from an early age and introduced him to artistic circles from childhood. Together they traveled extensively throughout Europe.
From 1920 to 1924, Gailliard lived in Paris, where he came into contact with numerous artists and writers. Among them were the modern dancer Isadora Duncan, artist Pablo Picasso, poet Jean Cocteau, and composer Erik Satie. From 1922 onward, he participated in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris.
During the interwar period, Gailliard’s work became abstract. It evolved toward an abstract-geometric visual language, characterized by areas of color and a playful use of material. In this way, Gailliard became one of the first Belgian abstract painters and a key figure in Belgian modernism before 1940.
Around 1928, Gailliard definitively returned to figurative painting, which he himself termed “surimpressionism.” With this concept, he referred to the reality behind visible reality, characterized by a duality between abstraction and figuration. Gailliard developed a highly personal style that is closely related to Belgian Surrealism.
