In the 1940s and 1950s he is associated with Tachisme, though that describes only a small part of his artistic achievement, such as his hallucinatory representations of faces and heads; his work often uses dense, suggestively gestural strokes that incorporate calligraphy, asemic writing and abstract expressionism.
11 July 1959 – 11 October 1959
Exhibition: Documenta II
1960
Prize at the Venice Biennale
He wins a prize at the 1960 Venice Biennale, after which, in 1964, the first worldwide retrospective of his paintings and graphic work opens.
