Lot 265
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Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… Read more PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF AYALA ZACKS ABRAMOV
Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)

Pesante journée (Weighing Day)

Details
Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)
Pesante journée (Weighing Day)
signed 'Alechinsky 1961' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'PESANTE JOURNÉE 1961-1962 Alechinsky' (on the stretcher)
ink and tempera on Kraft paper laid on canvas
49 x 118 ¼in. (124.6 x 300.5cm.)
Executed in 1961-1962
Provenance
Sam and Ayala Zacks, Toronto (acquired directly from the artist in 1962).
Ayala Zacks Abramov, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Thence by descent to the present owners.
Exhibited
Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, XVIIIe Salon de Mai, 1962.
Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Alechinsky & The Cobra Group, 1962.
Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, 1990-1991 (on loan).
Special Notice
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Lot Essay

‘You would help me, and I would be infinitely grateful, if you could lend me “une pesante journée” which is one of my best works. I hope you understand my insistence: it would be very hard for me to curate this exhibition without this work. Some works are interchangeable but not this one. I miss it.’
—TRANSLATED FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY THE ARTIST ADDRESSED TO MR ZACKS REQUESTING UNE PESANTE JOURNEE TO BE LOANED FOR THE EXHIBITIONS AT CHICAGO, ARTS CLUB AND MINNEAPOLIS, UNIVERSITY GALLERY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA AND NEW YORK, JEWISH MUSEUM, 1965.

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