Provenance
Private collection
Note: Wilmar was a regular exhibitor with The Salon des Réalités Nouvelles - an association of artists (and an art exhibition) in Paris, which focused on abstract art. The expression ‘Réalités Nouvelles’ (New realities) was penned in 1912 by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The first exhibition was held in 1939 in Galerie Charpentier, organised by Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Nelly van Doesburg and Fredo Sidès. In 1946 the Salon was officially established as a successor to Abstraction-Création by Fredo Sidès, and its first board included Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay and Albert Gleizes as members. Sidès was chairman until his death in 1953. With enthusiastic critical support in its early days, the Salon quickly proved successful, presenting geometric and concrete works by artists such as Jean Dewasne and Victor Vasarely as well as non-figurative works by Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Vieira de Silva, and Robert Motherwell.