Galerie illégitime 10

A concise still life built around a paper hat—an homage to Robert Filliou’s Galerie légitime—where the idea of a portable, accessible exhibition space is translated into a focused pictorial form. The composition is reduced to balance and proportion, with a restrained palette that emphasizes clarity and material presence.

Part of The Paintings Section From Davis Museum Barcelona, the work situates itself within a broader reflection on artist-led exhibition models, while maintaining a strong, self-contained visual identity.

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Davis Lisboa, Galerie illégitime 10, 2018. Oil on linen, 40 × 30 × 3.5 cm (15.7 × 11.8 × 1.38 in).

The work draws on Robert Filliou’s Galerie légitime—a portable gallery created in 1962 inside a hat, conceived to present small artworks in any context—and translates this principle into a painting of clear and concentrated structure.

The composition takes the form of a still life centered on a paper hat placed on a pedestal. Reduced to its essential elements, the image is constructed through balance, proportion, and material presence. A restrained palette and controlled handling of oil reinforce a direct and precise visual reading.

Integrated into The Paintings Section From Davis Museum Barcelona, the work forms part of a system that connects artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filliou, and Marcel Broodthaers with works including Boîte-en-valise, Galerie légitime, and Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, establishing a narrative around artists who created their own exhibition structures.

Produced during the Gray Period, the painting adopts a reduced tonal range that enhances its formal clarity, affirming it as a self-contained work within the expanded system of the Davis Museum.