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Pierre Alechinsky

Pierre Alechinsky

1927

WA-00015984

Brussels, Belgium

PaintingExpressionismCoBrALyrical Abstraction

Representation

None documented

12

Institutional Exhibitions

443

Works in Collection

890

Assets Indexed

3

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ328248

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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The Expressionist Idiom

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

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Pierre Alechinsky: A Print Retrospective

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

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Printed Art: A View of Two Decades

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1980

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Gifts of Drawing

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979

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A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976–1977

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Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

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Lettering by Hand

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1962–1963

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Drawings, Watercolors, Collages: New Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1959

Field Verification (3 fields)

1 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
BiographyWikipedia· 88%
NationalityArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (2)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/107
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Pierre Alechinsky yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (443)

Traité des Excitants Modernes

1989 · 14 linoleum cuts with 15 spitbite and sugarlift aquatints

Museum of Modern Art

Cover from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in black

plate 10 3/8 x 8 1/8" (26.3 x 20.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of plate from folio 24 (supplementary suite, plate 8) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in color

plate 10 1/8 x 8 9/16" (25.7 x 21.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of plate from folio 16 (supplementary suite, plate 5) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in color

plate 8 1/8 x 10 9/16" (20.7 x 26.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of plate from folio 6 (supplementary suite, plate 2) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in color

plate 11 5/16 x 4 3/4" (28.7 x 12 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of plate from folio 22 (supplementary suite, plate 7) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in color

plate 8 15/16 x 6 1/4" (22.8 x 15.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 28) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 14 1/16 x 18 1/2" (35.7 x 47 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 10) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 14 3/16 x 18 5/16" (36 x 46.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of plate from folio 14 (supplementary suite, plate 4) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in color

plate 6 1/4 x 8 1/4" (15.9 x 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 22) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 14 7/16 x 18 3/4" (36.7 x 47.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 29) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

plate 10 7/8 x 8 1/2" (27.6 x 21.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Frontispiece from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in black

plate 10 3/8 x 8 1/8" (26.3 x 20.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of frontispiece (supplementary suite, plate 1) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in color

plate 10 3/8 x 8 1/16" (26.3 x 20.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Poèmes à Voir

1986 · Illustrated book with twelve lift ground aquatint and etchings, two lift ground aquatints and a supplementary suite of 11 lift ground aquatints

irreg. page 15 9/16 x 19 7/8" (39 x 50.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 6) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 13 3/16 x 15 11/16" (33.5 x 39.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 12) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 14 3/16 x 18 5/8" (36 x 47.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 8) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 14 7/16 x 18 1/4" (36.7 x 46.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 14) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 14 5/16 x 19 5/16" (36.4 x 49.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 24) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 14 1/4 x 17 15/16" (36.2 x 45.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 16) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 13 9/16 x 18 5/16" (34.4 x 46.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 18) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 14 3/4 x 19 1/8" (37.5 x 48.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 20) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint and etching, printed in color

irreg. composition 14 7/16 x 18 3/4" (36.7 x 47.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of plate from folio 8 (supplementary suite, plate 3) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in color

plate 14 3/8 x 9 3/8" (36.6 x 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of plate from folio 20 (supplementary suite, plate 6) from POÈMES À VOIR

1986 · Lift ground aquatint, printed in color

plate 11 15/16 x 7 13/16" (30.3 x 19.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (4)

443 published of 888 catalogued · 405 with image

MoMA
429 publishedof 874 catalogued394 img
Tate
8 published8 img
Art Institute Chicago
3 published3 img
The Met
3 published

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Mais où sont-ils (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

11

Movements3

Expressionism CoBrA Lyrical Abstraction

Collections8

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Christie's The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Freeman's|Hindman

Market

Auction History

Work	Auction House	Date	Estimate	Hammer Price
Untitled	Artsy	Jul 2025	€10,000 – €15,000	Unsold