Lot 167
167
Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)
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Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)

Le blanc volatil (The White Volatile)

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Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)
Le blanc volatil (The White Volatile)
signed 'Alechinsky' (lower left); signed, titled, dedicated and dated 'Alechinsky 2002 LE BLANC VOLATIL / EN PENSANT Á ÉDUARDO CHILLIDA ET AUX "MAINS ÉBLOUIES" EN 1950 !' (on the stretcher)
acrylic, India ink and paper collage on paper laid down on canvas
62¼ x 61 3⁄8in. (158 x 156cm.)
Painted in 2002
Provenance
Galerie Lelong, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.
Exhibited
Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Homenaje a Chillida, 2006 (illustrated in colour, p. 175).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'Sometimes, Aimé Maeght would invite a few bright young things to exhibit in his gallery. The shows were called Les Mains éblouies (The Dazzle Hands), a title invented by the poet Jacques Kober - there was a faculty with words in the rue de Téhéran. In company with the great sculptor Eduardo Chillida, less known then but on the brink of coming to the attention of Gaston Bachelard (this was in 1950), and with other bright young things (Arnal, Corneille, Jacques Doucet, Bernard Dufour, Jacques Lanzmann, Palazuelo, Serge Rezvani, Youngerman...), I showed the results of my first artistic experiments.'
- Pierre Alechinsky

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