Vanité Citadine
acrylic on rice paper on canvas
1987
190 x 95 cm
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Brussel, 1927
Pierre Alechinsky studied book illustration, typography and printmaking at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et des Arts Decoratifs in Brussel from 1944 to 1948. In 1947 he became a member of the Jeune Peinture Belge group and mounted his first solo exhibition in Brussels. In 1949 he met Christian Dotremont and joined the CoBrA movement.
Together with the sculptors Olivier Strebelle and Reinhoud, Alechinsky was a driving force behind Les ateliers du Marais, the meeting place for many CoBrA artists. Alongside Dotremont, Alechinsky was the lynchpin of CoBrA’s Belgian branch, organising the group’s final joint exhibition in Liège. Alechinsky threw himself with such enthusiasm into the task of organising the movement and editing its newsletter that he hardly had time for his own work, and for this reason he did not really begin to develop as an artist until after the CoBrA period. After the group fell apart in the early Fifties, he settled in Paris.
In 1955 Alechinksy travelled to Japan to study Japanese calligraphy. During the Sixties his work was particularly influenced by Eastern calligraphy. In 1965, during an extended stay in the United States, Alechinsky began to use acrylic paints, a medium that enabled him to forge his “graffiti” of lines, symbols, circles, texts and fabulous creatures into a united whole.
From the Sixties onwards Alechinsky increasingly collaborated with other artists. Publications appeared with poetic texts by various authors, which he illustrated with mythical animals. In the 21st century Pierre Alechinsky is as active as ever.
lithograph
1969
82 x 60 cm
Edition 300
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lithograph
1971
50 x 45 cm
Edition 150
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etching and aquatint
1977
95 x 60 cm
Edition 60
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lithograph
1977
65 x 48 cm
Edition EA
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lithograph
1977
65 x 48 cm
Edition 100
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lithograph
1977
65 x 48 cm
Edition 100
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lithograph
1977
65 x 48 cm
Edition 100
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lithograph
1978
32 x 24 cm
Edition EA
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lithograph
1978
67 x 52 cm
Edition 99
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lithograph
1978
67 x 52 cm
Edition 99
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lithograph
1978
76 x 52 cm
Edition 99
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lithograph
1978
67 x 50 cm
Edition 99
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etching
1978
30 x 22 cm
Edition 50
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aquatint, etching
1978
61 x 81 cm
Edition 75
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lithograph
1983
24 x 18 cm
Edition 75
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lithograph
1983
32 x 48 cm
Edition 99
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lithograph
1983
32 x 48 cm
Edition 99
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lithograph
1983
32 x 48 cm
Edition 99
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lithograph
1983
32 x 48 cm
Edition 99
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lithograph
1988
36 x 26 cm
Edition 90
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aquatint, etching
1988
90 x 185 cm
Edition HC 6/20
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lithograph, etching
1991
40 x 28 cm
Edition 125
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lithograph, etching
1991
86 x 52 cm
Edition 99
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etching and aquatint
1995
65 x 50 cm
Edition 99
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etching
1997
36 x 28 cm
Edition 80
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etching
1999
31 x 13 cm
Edition 80
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etching
2004
35 x 27 cm
Edition 75
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etching
2004
35 x 27 cm
Edition 75
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etching
2004
35 x 27 cm
Edition 75
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etching
2013
13 x 26 cm
Edition 99
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