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Stamp by Pierre Alechinsky
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Notes of biography
Pierre Alechinsky was born in Brussels in 1927. In the immediate post-war period, he studied typography and illustration at the National School of Architecture and Decorative Arts of Cambre (Brussels).
In 1945, Alechinsky discovered the work of Michaux, Dubuffet, surrealists and became friend with the art critic Jacques Putman. His first personal exhibition is organized in 1947. He met Dotremont in 1949 and adhered to the movement Cobra this same year (Asger Jorn, Karel Appel); he was one of the most active members until the Cobra’s dissolution in 1951. Alechinsky participated in the first International Exhibition of Cobra at the Stedjelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1954 he met the Chinese painter Wallace Ting who played an important role in the development of its work.
In the 50’s the artist stayed in The Far East, then in The United States; he was interested in the Japanese calligraphy and in the Action Painting. Both will influence durably his work. Alechinsky painted, on the ground, the interlacing of curves, figures and non figures, which are mostly encircled with a frame painted by small compartments filled with narrative or rhythmic motives, drawn in the Indian ink. Alechinsky created suites, often very colored, in his painting and also in his graphic work. This last one began in the excitement of the Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter who will drive him and will always keep a place of choice in the expression of the artist. Alechinsky creates a lot of etchings and lithographs. Fond of books, he illustrates poems and texts (Cioran, Butor, Yves Bonnefoy, André Frénaud, Tardieu etc…) and he publishes numerous books.
In 1983, Alechinsky becomes a painting teacher in Paris at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris. Since The 80’s , the artist goes on his graphic art on a big variety of supports. In the same time, he begins being a lot of in demand by Public boards (Palais Bourbon, Hall du Ministère des Finances etc…). Exhibition and International retrospectives celebrate him, all over the world museums and galleries welcome his work. Pierre Alechinsky manages at once his work pictorial and literally (poetry, reports around his work). He lives and works in Bougival.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Alechinsky, peintures et écrits », Yves Rivière, 1977
- « Entre les lignes », Yves Rivière, 1996
- « Deux pinceaux dans la salle » (avec A. Gironella), Actes Sud, 1996
- « Pierre Alechinsky, rétrospective », Galerie nationale du Jeu de paume, 1998
- « Les impressions d'Alechinsky », collectif, BNF Ed., 2005
- « Alechinsky de A à Y », Michel Draguet, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 2007
- « Alechinsky : Les ateliers du Midi », D. Abadie, H. Cixous, Ed. Gallimard, 2010
- « Alechinsky : A contre-vent », Hélène Cixous, Ed. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2012
- « Pierre Alechinsky », Pierre Daix, Ed. Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2015
- « Pierre Alechinsky : Les palimpsestes », collectif, Silvana Ed., 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Remarques marginales », Gallimard, 1997
- « Roue libre », Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 2017
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Stamp by Pierre Alechinsky
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsLetter autograph to Asger Jorn
Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
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+ COBRA / 1948-1952 / Christian Dotremont, etc.
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