Pierre AlechinskyBelgian, 1927Mais où sont-ils
May one see it?
Not receiving at present
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1965.853
In the catalog
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
Meanwhile, in the life of Pierre Alechinsky
The whole life1960s
Ink and Eastern calligraphy
Alechinsky moves to more fluid materials — ink — becomes fascinated by Eastern calligraphy and grows close to the Chinese painter Wallace Ting, who lived in the United States.
28 June 1964 – 6 October 1964
Exhibition: Documenta III
1965
Breton invites him to the Surrealist exhibition
André Breton invites Alechinsky to take part in the 10th International Exhibition of Surrealist Art.
1965
Switches to acrylics and a comic-strip manner
Under Wallace Ting’s influence he begins working in acrylics in a technique close to comics.
