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Guillaume Louis Le Roy (Blaricum, July 28, 1938 – Amsterdam, May 5, 2008) was a Dutch graphic artist who lived and worked in Amsterdam.In 1957, he attended the School for Applied Arts in Amsterdam, later the Rietveld Academy, where he studied printmaking. He used discarded café tables from the De Hoefslag restaurant to create his first woodcuts. After graduating in 1962, he moved to family near Paris and spent over two years in international art circles there. In 1964, he moved to Amsterdam, where Le Roy first acquired a studio in the hold of a cargo ship on the Amstel and later at two different addresses on the Prinsengracht, where he had his studio in the attic and where his printing presses were also located. In Amsterdam, Le Roy soon met the graphic artist Metten Koornstra, who had a small printing workshop on the Prinsengracht. Through him, he also came into contact with Piet Clement, who worked there as a printer. In 1968, Clement opened his own printing shop for artists on the Prinsengracht, and the work of Guillaume Le Roy was regularly exhibited in the accompanying gallery, Printshop (now Galerie Clement), starting in 1969. Since 1965, Le Roy was frequently asked to exhibit his work, first in Amsterdam and subsequently throughout the country and also abroad. A list of exhibitions up to 2001 is included in a book that Erik Slagter compiled about the artist. From 1986 to 1999, Le Roy was a lecturer at the Christian University of the Arts in Kampen, and from 1990 to 1992 a guest lecturer at the art academy in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
Although well-known for his graphic work, there are also a few paintings, of which this one is a rare exemple. In his characteristic colour-scheme, Le Roy created an almost mystic work. In good condition, 81x61x2, oil on board, signed Le Roy 69
