Pierre Alechinsky - Autographed And Signed Photo

Pierre ALECHINSKY (born in 1927), Belgian painter Alechinsky, Bougival October 28, 1994 Original silver print of the Belgian painter Pierre Alechinsky in his studio in Bougival. Size: 23.7x30.3 cm Photo signed and dedicated to the journalist, literary critic and biographer, notably of Bernard Buffet, Jean-Claude Lamy. Pierre ALECHINSKY was born on October 19, 1927 in Saint-Gilles-lez-Bruxelles. His father was Russian and his mother Walloon. He studied at the École nationale supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts visuels de La Cambre in Brussels. It was at this time that he discovered surrealism and the work of Dubuffet and Michaux. He became an avant-garde figure in Belgian art, joining the Cobra movement in 1949, joining the painters Corneille, Karel Apple, Constant, Jan Nieuwenhuys and Asger Jorn. He actively participated in exhibitions and wrote articles in the magazine Cobra. After the dissolution of the movement, he moved to Paris and rubbed shoulders with the surrealists. He gradually abandoned oil painting for other, faster techniques that better suited his research, including Indian ink used in Japanese calligraphy, which fascinated him. His first major exhibition was organized in 1955 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels; in 1998 he exhibited at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, and in 2004 at the Centre Pompidou. Finally, from December 2007 to March 2008, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels paid tribute to him with a retrospective exhibition for his 80th birthday.