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Constant Rey-Millet (3 July 1905—26 January 1959) was a Savoyard artist described by Étiemble as one "of the great painters of our time."

Constant Rey-Millet was born at at La Tour, Haute-Savoie on 3 July 1905.

In 1922 he discovered Picasso, Cezanne, la Fresnaye and, a little later, Severini. His medium at that time is almost always in oil on large canvasses.

He underwent a surrealist crisis in 1935. He moved to Toulon in 1940 where his medium has become pastels and very small pictures. At this time, he often visited Matisse and does several portraits of him.

In 1946 he moved to Florida where he changes his medium to that which is now associated with him: gouaches with brightly colored or black backgrounds. Georges Limbour has written: "All this was too thoroughly reinvented to retain any embarrassing flavor of exoticism ... . It had the charm of a dream, the ingenuous beauty of a fairy tale."

IN 1949 he returned to the family home in La Tour where he died in 1959.

Exhibitions
Source:
 * 1933 Les Amis des Beaux Arts à l’Athénée, Geneva
 * 1946 L’Art au Village, St Jeoire, Savoie du Nord
 * 1947 Galerie Pierre, Paris
 * 1951 Musée des Beaux Arts, Mulhouse, Alsace
 * L’Art au Village, St Jeoire, Savoie du Nord
 * Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
 * 1955 Mairie de Douvaine, Savoie du Nord
 * 1956 Exposition collective : Les Poètes du Visible, Douvaine, Savoie du Nord
 * 1958 Exposition collective : Les Poètes du Visible, Galerie Alex Maguy, Paris
 * 1960 Exposition collective, Granges de Servette, Douvaine, Savoie du Nord
 * 1963 Galerie Coard, Paris
 * 1967 Musée de l’Athénée, Geneva
 * 1987 Exposition collective : Inventaire 1900 – 1950, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, Savoie du Nord
 * 2000 Rétrospective Constant Rey-Millet au Conversatoire d'Art et d'Histoire d'Annecy, Haute-Savoie
 * 2003 Centre Pompidou, dans le cadre d'une Carte blanche à Valère Novarina, Paris
 * 2005 Palais des Congrès, Évian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie