Guillaume Le Roy - Untitled

Colorful vintage work by Guillaume Louis Le Roy (Blaricum, July 28, 1938 - Amsterdam May 5, 2008)
Le Roy was a graphic artist who lived and worked in Amsterdam. During his school years, Le Roy lived in Bosch en Duin, where his parents took over the De Hoefslag inn in 1945 and turned it into a restaurant. In 1957, he went to the School for Applied Arts in Amsterdam, the later Rietveld Academy, and attended the free graphics department there. He used cafe tables discarded by the De Hoefslag restaurant to make his first woodcuts. After graduating in 1962, he moved to family near Paris and spent more than two years in international art circles. In 1963, he married Ellen Lopes Cardozo. A son was soon born from this marriage. In 1964, the couple moved to Amsterdam, where Le Roy first had a studio in the hold of a cargo ship in 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 got to know 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 got his own printing house for artists on the Prinsengracht and in the associated gallery Printshop (now Galerie Clement) the work of Guillaume Le Roy was regularly exhibited from 1969 onwards.
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