Wemaëre in March 2007

Pierre Wemaëre (October 1, 1913 – January 8, 2010) was a French painter and tapestry designer.

Biography

Wemaëre was born in Comines, France in 1913.[1] Wemaëre was a student in Fernand Léger's Atelier de l'Art Contemporain in the mid 1930s.[2][3][4] In the 1940s Wemaëre took up weaving and tapestry design as part of his art practice.[5] He was a long-time friend and collaborator with Asger Jorn, who he had met at Leger's Atelier.[6]

He died in Versailles, France in 2010.[1]

Collections

His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[7] the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,[8] the Centre Pompidou, Paris[1] and the Tate Museum, London.[9]

His series entitled "double pris" (literally double take"), was produced during the late 1960's into fall 1974. These experimental pieces saw Pierre create 2 artworks of the same subject. The first, was painted with his non-dominant right hand, and the second, the same image, with his dominant hand, but given a self-imposed 3 minute time limit.

His Double Pris collection, while not gaining much collector regard, has proven very popular in the avant guard collector circles.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Pierre Wemaëre | Centre Pompidou".
  2. ↑ Villemur, Frédérique; Pietrzak, Brigitte (2004). Paul Facchetti : Le studio: Art informel et abstraction lyrique. ISBN 9782742747733.
  3. ↑ Atkins, Guy; Andersen, Troels (January 1977). Asger Jorn, the crucial years 1954-1964: A study of Asger Jorn's artistic development from 1954 to 1964 and a catalogue of his oil paintings from that period. ISBN 9780815006961.
  4. ↑ Jorn, Asger; Shield, Peter (2017-03-02). The Natural Order and Other Texts. ISBN 9781351885287.
  5. ↑ Atkins, Guy; Andersen, Troels (1977). Asger Jorn, the Crucial Years, 1954-1964: A Study of Asger Jorn's Artistic Development from 1954 to 1964 and a Catalogue of His Oil Paintings from that Period. ISBN 9780853313984.
  6. ↑ Jorn, Asger (2002). Asger Jorn Retrospektive. ISBN 9788778750389.
  7. ↑ "Pierre Wemaëre".
  8. ↑ "The angry mask | Pierre WEMAËRE | NGV | View Work".
  9. ↑ "Pierre Wemaere 1913-2010".
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