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Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)
Le hoquet du poisson-crapaud
signed 'Alechinsky' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Alechinsky 1970 Le hoquet du poisson-crapaud' (on the reverse)
ink and acrylic on paper laid on canvas
114.5 x 154cm.
Executed in 1970
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s London, 1 December 1988, lot 614.
Galería Theo, Madrid.
Private Collection, Belgium.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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‘When I paint, I liberate monsters... They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience... One does not choose the content, one submits to it’ – Pierre Alechinsky

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