DELAHAUT, Jo. ~ EF...
No. 63 of 100 copies. 6 double page abstract colour serigraphs or silkscreen prints by Jo Delahaut with his large printed text with title page and colophon. Folio, loose as issued in yellow paper wrapper in a purple cloth covered chemise and green cloth slipcase with EF... printed on the cover. In excellent condition.
The painter Jo Delahaut (1911-1992) is one of the pivotal figures of the geometric abstraction in Belgium. He was born in Liège and studied at the local Art Academy. After an exhibition in Charleroi (1942), he makes his first abstract works and within La Jeune Peinture Belge group show in 1947 he is the only representative of abstract art. Under the influence of the work by Auguste Herbin, he moved increasingly towards the geometric abstraction. In 1952, he established Belgian art circle Art Abstrait along with Pol Bury, Jean Milo, Georges Collignon and Albert Saverys, among others, and became one of the most emblematic figures of so-called “geometrical abstraction”. Subsequently, Delahaut established Art abstrait-Formes (1956) and Art Construit (1960). With Bury, he writes the manifesto La Spatialisme in 1954. One of his last major retrospective exhitions was held in the Musée d’Art wallon in 1990.
In this publication, illustrated with double page geometrical abstract silk prints, he publishes some of his ideas about abstract art and the relation between the artist and his art.