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As well as regularly participating in the avant-garde salons such as the Salon d’Octobre 1952-1953, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles 1955-1976, Salon de Mai 1956, 1959, 1962, 1964, Salon des Comparaisons 1956-1965, and Salon d’Automne 1962-1979; Gauthier exhibited extensively throughout Europe notably including Junge Malerei in Frankreich, (itinerant) Germany, 1955; 5 Unge Franskiaend, Copenhagen, 1956; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 1956; Cinquante Ans de Peinture Abstrait, Galerie Creuze, 1957; Nouvelle École de Paris, Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1958; Frankfurt, 1961; L’Art Français Contemporain, Belgrade and Zagreb, 1963; Musée de l’Athénée, Geneva, 1966; and represented France at the VI Biennale Sao Paulo in 1961.
He also won the Prix Lissone, Milan in 1957 and has been the subject of several retrospectives including “Oscar Gauthier. De l’Abstraction au Paysagisme Abstrait 1948-63, Galerie Bellecour, 1986, O. Gauthier, Les Années 50, Galerie Arnoux, 1989, Galerie Bertrand Trocmez 1994….
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