Michel Seuphor
Belgium (1901—1999)
Born Fernand Berckelaers, he changed his name into Seuphor, anagram of Orpheus in 1917. In 1921 he founded the magazine Het Overzicht. From 1922 he started to travel and became acquainted with the European avant-garde groups in Berlin, Rome and Paris. He founded the group Cercle et Carré, with Joaquín Torres García. He directed the group magazine with the contribution of artists such as Mondrian, Hans and Sophie Arp, Léger, Schwitters and Kandinsky. From 1931 to 1938 he left Paris for health issues and upon his return he organised a number of abstract art exhibitions. In 1949 he wrote L'Art abstrait, ses origines, ses premiers maîtres. From 1950s he dedicated himself to art critics with a strong focus on XXth century abstract art, publishing Dictionnaire de la Peinture abstraite and Sculpture de ce siècle two years later.
Fleur alarmée pour Arp
Original Wood-cut print / 14.4 x 19.5 cm / 1966
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50 Ans de plaisirs par Michel Tapié / Journal / Letterpress / 50.2 x 65.6 cm / Paris, 1949 / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020
Ljubomir Micić / Michel Seuphor / Dragan Aleksić / Branko Ve Poljanski / Mihajlo Petrov / Fortunato Depero / Walter Gropius / Wassily Kandinsky / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kazimir Maljevič / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Vladimir Mayakovsky / László Moholy-Nagy / Pablo Picasso / Vladimir Tatlin / Theo Van Doesburg / Marc Chagall / Egon Schiele
Zenit
International review of arts and culture / Journal / Letterpress / Various sizes / Zagreb / Belgrade, 1921-1923
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Willi Baumeister / Enrico Prampolini / Michel Seuphor / Gino Severini / Joaquín Torres García / Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman / César Domela / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Henryk Stażewski / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Fernand Léger / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / Pablo Picasso / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan
Francesco Cangiullo / Paul Joostens / Jozef Peeters / Michel Seuphor / Philippe Soupault / Iliazd (Ilia Zdanevich) / Robert Delaunay / Juan Gris / Émile Malespine / Vilmos Huszár / Mario De Andrade / Sonia Delaunay / Fortunato Depero / Lajos Kassák / Fernand Léger / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / László Moholy-Nagy / Tristan Tzara
Het Overzicht
Half-Maandelijks Tijdschrift: Kunst, Letteren, Menshei / Bi-monthly periodical / 23.9 x 32 cm / Antwerp, 1921-1925 / SABAM Belgium 2020
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Manomètre
Mélange des langues, enregistre les idées, indique la pression sur tous les méridiens, est polyglotte et supranational / Magazine / 17.5 x 22.5 cm / Lyon, 1922-1928
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