Ramses
1961 · Color etching on white wove paper
Plate: 19.8 × 41 cm (7 13/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 35 × 56.5 cm (13 13/16 × 22 1/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Luc Peire
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- • Abstract Art
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Luc Peire was a Belgian abstract painter who developed a geometric vocabulary centered on color relationships and spatial composition. Working in oil on canvas, his practice merged constructivist principles with a lyrical sensibility characteristic of Northern European modernism. Emerging in the postwar period, Peire's work synthesized rigorous formal systems with chromatic refinement, distinguishing his approach within the geometric abstraction of his generation.
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