Findlay Galleries in Palm Beach is delighted to present French Modernist painter Gilles Gorriti’s most recent works. Son of renowned artist Paul Aizpiri and grandson of Ignacio Gorriti de Aizpiri, Gilles Gorriti was born in Paris in 1939. A disciple of the French Modernist movement, Gorriti believes that to establish a certain mood and an emotional response in painting, the use of color is more important than subject alone.

As a true colorist, Gorriti is a virtuoso in using the full range of his palette. He creates both subtle, unobtrusive fragments of delicate tones alongside vibrantly orchestrated blocks of color.

At the age of seventeen, Gorriti organized his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie Morval. The following ye...