Live Auction 3053Post-War and Contemporary
Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)
Lot 38

Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)

Retour des Choses

Closed15 April 2015

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EUR 157,500

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Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)
Retour des Choses
signed and dated 'Alechinsky 1993-94' (lower right); signed, titled and dated twice ‘Alechinsky 1993 RETOUR DES CHOSES 1993-94’ (on the stretcher)
acrylic on paper laid down on canvas
247 x 192.5 cm.
Executed in 1993-1994

Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Robinsons Art Gallery, Knokke-Zoute.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

Specialist note

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the artist.

'Any idea that is too precise at the outset: it can blind one to new ideas that might otherwise appear while work is in progress. Everything significant occurs within this creative "meanwhile" (which is one of the mysteries of art) Before is irrelevant... And after we stand in front of a fait accompli, a definite result, definitely locked in its own moment in time, and which we call a painting' (Pierre Alechinsky, 'Interview with Michael Gibson' in Pierre Alechinsky: Margin and Centre, exh. cat. New York 1987, p. 15).