Pierre Alechinsky

PIERRE ALECHINSKY (Brussels, 1927).
"Troisième arrondissement de Paris", 1983.
Lithograph, copy 7/99.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 31,5 x 47,5 cm.

Pierre Alechinsky trained at the École Nationale Supérieure d'ARchitecture et des Arts Décoratifs de la Cambre in Brussels, showing both talent and interest in illustration and typography. He began painting in 1947, beginning a career that would mix certain characteristics of Expressionism with others of Surrealism, both accompanied by a very personal style. At the end of the 1940s he met the poet Christian Dotremont, one of the founding members of the CoBrA group, and Alechinsky joined it in 1949. He also participated in the group's first international exhibition in Amsterdam and collaborated on canvases with Karel Appel and other members. His work has been exhibited in Amsterdam, London, the Venice Biennale, New York, etc., and is held in important private collections and institutions such as the Marion Lefebre Collection in Los Angeles, the Galerie Leolong in Paris, the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the MoMA, etc.