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Guillaume Louis Le Roy (1938-2008). Completely framed. During his school years, Le Roy lived in Bosch en Duin, where his parents took over the tavern De Hoefslag in 1945 and turned it into a restaurant. In 1957, he attended the School voor Kunstnijverheid in Amsterdam, which later became the Rietveld Academy, where he studied free graphics. Discarded café tables by the restaurant De Hoefslag he used to make his first woodcuts. After graduating in 1962, he moved to relatives near Paris and spent over two years in international art circles there. In 1963, he married Ellen Lopes Cardozo. A son was soon born from this marriage. In 1964, the couple moved to Amsterdam where Le Roy first got a studio in the hold of a cargo boat in the Amstel river and later at two different addresses on the Prinsengracht, where he had his studio in the attic and where his printing presses were also located. In Amsterdam, Le Roy soon got to know the graphic artist Metten Koornstra, who had a small printing workshop on Prinsengracht. Through him, he also came into contact with Piet Clement who worked there as a printer. In 1968, Clement got his own print shop for artists on Prinsengracht and in the associated gallery Printshop (now Galerie Clement), Guillaume Le Roy's work was exhibited regularly from 1969 onwards. Since 1965, Le Roy was often asked to exhibit his work, first in Amsterdam and then throughout the country and occasionally abroad. A list of exhibitions up to 2001 is included in a book compiled by Erik Slagter about the artist (see under literature). From 1986 to 1999, Le Roy was a lecturer at the Christelijke Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Kampen and from 1990 to 1992 a guest lecturer at the art academy in 's-Hertogenbosch.