RAINE (Jean) - Lot 228

RAINE (Jean) Jean Raine. Retrospective 1944–1986. Saint-Priest, Center for Contemporary Art, 1988. A retrospective catalog devoted to the work of Belgian painter, poet, and filmmaker Jean Raine (1927–1986), a singular figure in the postwar European avant-garde. A friend of the Surrealists and close to many contemporary artists and writers, Raine developed a free, lyrical, and intensely personal body of pictorial work. This publication, produced for the retrospective organized shortly after his death, brings together a significant body of work spanning more than forty years of creative activity and is now considered one of the definitive reference works on the artist. Illustrated paperback.