Georges Vantongerloo Max Bill’s long-time close friend, the Belgian artist Georges Vantongerloo was a generation older and never made it to the U.S.A., although he did receive several prominent U.S. guests in his Paris studio, including the artist Ellsworth Kelly. The last major showing of his art in the U.S.A. was the retrospective in 1980.3
Georges Vantongerloo with Max Bill at the Panathenäum Exhibition in Athens on September 8, 1965. Vantongerloo points to his sculpture ‘Des Ecliptiques’. This is the last photo in which he can be seen together with Max Bill. Photo: © Carmen Martinez, archiv georges vantongerloo, haus bill, zumikon
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