Pierre Alechinsky
 

Belgian painter, born in Brussels on 19.10.1927. From 1944 to 1948 he studied at the Brussels State High School of Architecture and Fine Arts book drawing, printing and photography. It was at this time, he discovered Henri Michaux, Dubuffet and the Surrealists. Since 1947 he began to paint. At this time he was a member of the group "Bolodaya painting of Belgium.
He quickly became one of the most significant artists of the postwar Belgium. Poznakomvshis with poet Christian Dotremonom, one of the founders of Cobra (see the direction of Cobra), in 1948, he joined to the avant-garde direction in art. The first exhibition was held at the direction of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

After the dissolution of the Cobra Alechinsky moved to Paris, where he struck up a friendship with the Surrealists, as well as Alberto Giacometti, Bram van der Velde and Victor Brauner. In his work exerted a great influence Chinese painter Ting Wallace, with whom he met in 1954
In the same year in the Paris gallery of Nina Jean Dausset was organized the first solo exhibition Alechinsky, and in 1955 a large exhibition of artworks held in the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels. In 1958 his works were shown at London's Institute of Contemporary Art, in 1960 - in the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Gradually he stopped abandoned oil in favor of the carcass - it attracted the eastern calligraphy, and he made several trips to Japan. In particular, in 1955, during his stay in Kyoto, he photographed film about this art.

Since 1960 he regularly traveled to New York, where in 1965 he found a technique that he really came up - acrylic paints. In the same year he created his most famous work - "Central Park" (picture number 6), in which he first used the "marginalia" (the central image is bordered by vignettes that complement the content of the picture), to which he applied under the influence of comic books . The interaction between these areas contributes to the work element of mystery.
In 1965, André Breton, Pierre Alechinsky invited to participate in the X-th International Exhibition of Surrealism "absolute gap.
In 1998, he had a solo exhibition in the public gallery, de Pom, and in 2004 - one more in the Pompidou Center.
Finally, in 2007-2008. on the occasion of his eightieth anniversary of the Brussels Royal Museum of Fine Arts organized a retrospective exhibition of his.

One of the most famous modern artists prints. His lithographs are sold very well. So, I recommend:)

Aleshinsky some reason not included in the number of Russian artists living abroad, although he was born in a family of immigrants from Russia. One of the works shown LCR is called the Black Sea and is located in the collection of his son Ivan Aleshinsky as a second job, and the third from the collection of another son, Nicholas Aleshinsky. Well, others simply liked.:)

Strongly doubt that someone is interested, but the following suggestions LCR tradition.:)
That such work is the 12 th, the modern day Sotheby's, with an estimate of about 50%below the price of European galleries - 80-120tys.dollarov.