Artist: Alechinsky, Pierre
Title: Cover
Technique: Lithograph on Arches paper
size: 38 x 28 cm. (14,95 x 11 inch)
Framed: Not framed


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Pierre Alechinsky - Cover- Original lithograph, Executed for Derriere le Miroir nr 247, 1981. Published in Paris by Maeght. There is text on verso.

About the artist

Pierre Alechinsky (born 1927), born in Brussels, Belgium, is a Belgian artist best known for his involvement in the avant-garde CoBrA group. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs in Brussels before moving to Paris. Alongside Karel Appel and Asger Jorn, he helped found the CoBrA group, basing its principles primarily on the expressive attitude espoused by Jean Dubuffet's Art Brut.

Alechinsky's work melds medieval illustrations, folk art, and comic-book layouts. Many of his works, such as Central Park (1965), read as mysterious codices. A trip to Japan in 1955 prompted him to incorporate the traditional processes of Japanese calligraphy into his practice. Around this time, he also began referencing some of the bizarre imagery found in the work of the Flemish masters Pieter Brueghel and Hieronymus Bosch. "When I paint, I liberate monsters," Alechinsky once explained. "They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches, and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience."

Alechinsky was the subject of a retrospective at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in 2007. His works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, among others. He currently lives and works in Paris, France.

sku: DC0AP197

Excellent condition.