In-text plate (folio 4) from 21 Etchings and Poems

Christian DotremontWW-1952-M008900

1952·Etching and engraving from an illustrated book with 14 etchings (six with aquatint, four with engraving, one with drypoint), two aquatints, two engravings, two drypoints, and one photogravure·plate: 13 11/16 × 9 11/16" (34.7 × 24.6 cm); page: 19 11/16 × 16 7/8" (50 × 42.8 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1952
Medium: Etching and engraving from an illustrated book with 14 etchings (six with aquatint, four with engraving, one with drypoint), two aquatints, two engravings, two drypoints, and one photogravure
Dimensions: plate: 13 11/16 × 9 11/16" (34.7 × 24.6 cm); page: 19 11/16 × 16 7/8" (50 × 42.8 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Christian Dotremont

Artist

Christian Dotremont

Printmaking

Christian Dotremont was a Belgian artist and poet central to the postwar CoBrA movement, which unified artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam in pursuit of expressionist abstraction rooted in folk art and spontaneous mark-making. He worked across painting, drawing, and text-based works, often combining gestural abstraction with calligraphic elements and linguistic play. Dotremont's practice rejected both geometric abstraction and socialist realism, instead championing a liberated, child-like creative impulse that dissolved boundaries between writing and image.

Tervuren, Belgium

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