Pierre ALECHINSKY (1927). N°inv:25008-55. - Lot 73

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Pierre ALECHINSKY (1927). N°inv:25008-55. - Lot 73
Pierre ALECHINSKY (1927). N°inv:25008-55. Oil on canvas signed. Title : " Promenade familiale un dimanche après-midi". Dated: VII 1949. Countersigned in pencil on the back of the painting. COBRA period. Our thanks to Mr. Pierre Alechinsky. Exhibitions According to the Achives de Pierre Alechinsky our painting was exhibited at the Salon quatrienal de Liège. It bears an exhibition label on the back. Exhibition address Rue du Marais, 80 in Brussels under N° 50. Value: 3500 frs. Dimensions: 79 x 59cm. Our work is registered in Pierre Alechinsky's catalog raisonné under number 33. Exhibition Salon quatrienal de Liège, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Liège, 1949. We thank Mr Charron and Pierre Alechinsky for their help. Historical background -In 1950, Pierre Alechinsky founded a community house in Brussels, the Ateliers du Marais. (See label on back of painting). - 1948 The CoBrA movement (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) is founded at the café "Le Notre Dame" in Paris after its members leave an avant-garde conference. -1949. In March, the first issue of Cobra magazine appears in Copenhagen. The second comes out shortly afterwards, the same month, in Brussels, in the form of a catalog for the first Cobra exhibition, held in a small gallery. Pierre Alechinsky visits the exhibition and joins the collective. Appel and Corneille return to Paris, taking Constant's work with them for a group exhibition. Appel creates a fresco for the canteen of Amsterdam's City Hall (now The Grand Hotel), entitled "Enfants interrogeant" ("Questioning Children"). Following protests, the painting is covered with wallpaper. The first Cobra exhibition in a museum, the Exposition Internationale d'Art Expérimental, is held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Provenance: Ernest van Zuylen Collection by descent.
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