LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

78.74 in. (200.00 cm.) (height) by 74.80 in. (190.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Alechinsky' (lower centre)

Exhibited:

Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Alechinsky, 1963, no. 2 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Pierre Alechinsky, 1969. This exhibition later travelled to Humbebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Belgique Pays-Bas: Convergences et paralleles dans l'art depuis 1945, 1980, no. 4. This exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. Lisbon, Fundac¸a~o Calouste Gulbenkian, Arte Belga depois de 1945, 1980. Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Alechinsky, 1998. This exhibition later travelled to Hovikodden, Henie-Ostad Kunstsenter. Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporâneo, Alechinsky, 1999. This exhibition later travelled to Mexico City, Museo José Luis Cuevas. Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Alechinsky, 2000. Ostend, PMMK Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Pierre Alechinsky Retrospective, 2000.

Literature:

J. Putman, Alechinsky, Milan 1967, no. 35 (illustrated, unpaged).

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1961.