No. 1
1968 · Screenprint
composition and sheet: 19 5/8 x 25 13/16" (49.8 x 65.5cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Jean Dewasne
1921–1999
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Lille, France
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Jean Dewasne was a French sculptor working in abstraction and geometric form from the 1950s onward. His practice centered on investigations into volume, spatial relationships, and the material properties of his chosen forms, operating within the vocabulary of constructivism and kinetic abstraction. Based in Lille, Dewasne developed a rigorous formal language that examined how sculptural objects occupy and interact with space. His work remains an important reference point in postwar European abstraction.
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