Artist: Pierre Alechinsky (1927 - )
Nationality: Belgian
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Belgian artist, Pierre Alechinsky worked mainly France in an array of mediums, including painting, printmaking, drawing, and filmmaking. He joined the Jeune Peinture Belge in 1947 and two years later, joined the Cobra group. In 1952, he left the group to move to Paris and study under S.W. Hayter. He also traveled extensively across Europe, the Far East, the United States, and Mexico. His paintings are done in an abstract manner and are reminiscent of the work of Ensor.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Pierre Alechinsky, To Day Red Hot, Too Hot, 1964
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Pierre Alechinsky, Untitled, 1981
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Pierre Alechinsky, untitled, plate on p. 23 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Pierre Alechinsky, untitled, plate on p. 61 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Pierre Alechinsky, untitled, plate on pp. 80-81 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Pierre Alechinsky, untitled, plate on p. 134 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Pierre Alechinsky, untitled, plate on p. 148 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Pierre Alechinsky, untitled, plate on p. 149 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Pierre Alechinsky - Untitled c. 1968 watercolor and brush Hirshhorn Museum Belgian
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Pierre Alechinsky - Haute Surveillance 1986 acrylic and paper mo The Detroit Institute of Art Belgian
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Pierre Alechinsky - Prenez La Porte 1960 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum Belgian
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Pierre Vallet , Portrait of Pierre Vallet, (Self-Portrait), 1608
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pierre Ambroise Vollard, 1904
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Pierre-FranÁois Basan, Le Reniement de St. Pierre, 18th century
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Pierre Drevet, Pierre Pallot Parisien Historiogr du Roy et Genealog du Duche de Bourgogne, 1698
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Clement Pierre Marillier, Elle prit une grosse pierre entre ses paltes,..., 18th - 19th century
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Pierre Aveline le jeune, Bacchus and Ariadne, prob. after His Father Pierre Aveline le vieux., 17th - 18th century
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Eugene Atget - Cour 12 Rue Pierre du Lard 1900 Gelatin Silver print Birmingham Museum of Art French
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Pierre Bonnard, La Toilette, 1927
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Pierre Bonnard, Dans la rue, 1900
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Pierre Soulages, Composition IV, 1957
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Pierre Roche, Iris, 1896
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Pierre-Joseph RedoutÈ, Broom, 1786
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Jean-August-Dominique Ingres - Portrait of Pierre-Francois Bernier 1800 oil on paper mounted Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester French
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Pierre Lombart, Aeneas, 17th century
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Pierre Lombart, Acestes, 17th century
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Pierre Brissaud, L"Entra"acte #23, 1903
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John Singer Sargent - Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) 1883-84 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Pierre Philippe Chaffard, Vignette, 1772
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Pierre Philippe Chaffard, Vignette, 1772
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Pierre Philippe Chaffard, Vignette, 1772
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Karl Pierre Daubigny, Landscape, 1879
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Pierre Bonnard, La partie de cartes, 1895
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Jean Dubuffet, La Pierre (Antilope), 1962
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Pierre Simon le vieux, Portrait, 1687
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Pierre Alexandre Wille, Profile of a Man, 1769
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Pierre Courtin, Petit Jour, 1963
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Pierre Courtin, Cercle Vicieux, 1962
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Pierre Drevet, Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1721
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Pierre Lombart, Charles V, 17th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (4)
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Jack Rutberg Fine Arts: Pierre Alechinsky
Born in 1927, Pierre Alechinsky was a founder of the European expressionist movement - CoBrA. Although the CoBrA movement officially lasted through 1948 -1951, its impact was considerable as it included many of Europe s leading painters, writers, poe...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose work was to play a defining role in shaping the New Yor...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Cobra: Copenhagen Brussels Amsterdam
The name Cobra was coined in 1948 by the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont from the three cities where the main participants lived: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. Explosively expressive, with an emphasis on myth and the untutored art of child...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...

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Pierre Alechinsky: Biographie | Sonia Zannettacci - Art Gallery - Geneva, Switzerland
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