Jean Dewasne - Zeefdruk. Antisculpture Monumentale, Hommage à Spinoza - Sold

Hellemmes-Lille 1921 - Paris 1999) - Antisculpture Monumentale, Hommage à Spinoza - Edition of 2500 for the Peter Stuyvensant Foundation on the occasion of the 30th anniversary - Silkscreen, W. 53 x H. 38 cm. - NB: - Purchased in 1990 . Born in 1921 in Helemmes-Lille, the father of an engineer. After extensive classical and musical studies, Jean Dewasne had a revelation when he attended the 1937 International Exhibition of "Arts and Techniques Applied to Modern Life" and enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he spent two years in the architecture workshops before moving on to painting. His first exhibition took place at the Esquisse gallery in 1941. He made his first abstract work in 1943 and campaigned for abstraction with Hartung, de Staël, Poliakoff and Arp. In 1946, together with Auguste Herbin, he took part in the creation of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles and was awarded the Kandinsky Prize. In 1970, Jean Dewasne advised the architects of the Center Pompidou to use color on the facade to create a huge anti-sculpture. In 1981 he took part in the creation of the Oupeinpo ('L'Ouvroir de peinturepotenlle', founded in 1980 to create shapes, logical or playful mathematical constraints that can support the work of painters). In 1991 he was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, in the chair of Hans Hartung.