Pierre Alechinsky (b. Bruxelles 1927)
“Blitz-Krieg”, 1950. Signed Alechinsky III 50; signed, titled and dated on the supporting cardboard. Gouache on paper. Visible size 35×44 cm.
Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen 1968, cat. no. 2. Provenance: Knud Langaa-Jensens collection, Fåborg, Denmark. Provenance: “Knud Langaa-Jensens collection”, Kunsthallen Kunstauktioner, auction 537, Copenhagen 2003, cat. no. 16, reproduced in colours p. 15 in the catalogue. Provenance: Private collection, Denmark.
“It was CoBrA that made me come together as an artist. What CoBrA meant to me? It was just so natural to me. Back then, there was simply more freedom in Danish art than in the art of other countries. More poetry.” (Quote by Alechinsky in “COBRA – fra hoved til hale” (COBRA – from head to tail), pp. 72–73. Copenhagen, 1971)
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