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PIERRE ALECHINSKI 

Belgium 1927

Original lithographs by Alechinski, printed 1982 by Maeght, France.             
Paper 11x15" Price $750 & 22x15" Price $950                                              
Framing gold Leaf finished size 26x30" add $250 & 30x36" $350.

 Original Lithograph 1

 Original Lithograph 2

 Original Lithograph 3

Original Lithograph 5- large size

Original Lithograph 4 - large size

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1927 -Pierre Alechinsky is born in Brussels.

1944 -Alechinsky studies at the Cambre National Superior School of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Belgium, where he learned illustration, printing techniques and photography.

1949 -Alechinsky meets the poet Christian Dotremont, founder of the Cobra movement along with Karel Appel and Asger Jorn 

1951 -Studies engraving with Stanley William Hayter in studio 17.

1955 -Vacation in Japan, first major exhibition in the Centre of Fine Arts in Brussels.

1959 -Personal exhibition in Kunsthalle of Bern, Switzerland

1962 -Alechinsky exhibits regularly in the Lefebvre Gallery of New York and the Gallery of France in Paris.

1965 -The artist creates his first "marginal comments" painting: Central Park.

1966 -Alechinsky publishes "Ideotraces", one of his first significant books on painting, written in 1953

1967 -Establishes an engraving studio in Bougival.

1972 -Represents Belgium, along with Dotremont, at the XXXVI Venice Biennial Exhibition, in the Belgium Pavilion

1975 -Alechinsky is exhibited at the Paris Museum of Modern Art.

1982 -Exhibition with Appel at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

1983 -Alechinsky becomes a painting instructor at the Paris National Superior School of Fine Arts until 1987

1987 -Pierre Alechinsky: Margin and Center, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York U.S.A.

1997 -Release of Marginal Comments at Gallimard, Paris.

Alechinsky - Exhibitions

1955 - Palais des Beaux-arts of Brussels, Belgium.

1956 - Kunsthalle of Bern, Switzerland.

1961 - Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam and Kuntskring of Rotterdam, Holland.

1963 - Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

1969 - Palais des Beaux-arts of Brussels, Belgium.

1975 - Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.

1977 - Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA.

1981 - Beaux-Arts Museum, Montreal, Canada.

1983 - Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain.

1992 - Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

1998 - Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.

Alechinsky - Exhibitions

1966 - « Alechinsky, Idéotraces », Ed. Denoël.

1974 - « Alechinsky, le test du titre », Ed. Yves Rivière

1988 - « Alechinsky, centre et marges », Ed. Musées Royaux des Beaux-arts de Belgique.

1998 - « Alechinsky », Ed. Centre National du jeu de Paume.

2007 - « Alechinsky de A à Y » from Michel Draguet, Ed. Gallimard.