PIERRE ALECHINSKY. "A Main levée".

Signed and dated and a tergo Alechinsky 1957. Oil on canvas, 46 x 39 cm.

Exhibited:
"Paris 1959" Galerie Blanche Stockholm, catalogue number 1.

Pierre Alechinsky was one of the artists who gave the CoBrA movement its distinctive character early on. Later in Paris, he developed a visual language where painting, drawing and an almost written line work meet. During the 1950s, his interest in East Asian calligraphy also deepened, something that had a great impact on his way of thinking about rhythm, movement and pictorial surface.

In "A Main levée" from 1957, this is noticeable in the moving line, the light rhythm and the conscious balance between spontaneity and control. Alechinsky had an unusual ability to make the spontaneous appear obvious. The painting has never before been offered on the auction market, which makes it even more exciting.

Exhibited:
"Paris 1959" Galerie Blanche Stockholm, catalogue number 1.