Jo Delahaut (Liège 1911 - Brussels 1992)
Major belgian geometric abstract artist

​"Untitled" 1949, Gouache on paper, 15,5 x 25 cm
Exhibitions : Fine Arts Museum Mons 1987, Tallinn Museum, Estonia & National Museum Bucarest, 2002
SOLD

"Rhapsody in blue" 1979
Acrylic on canvas
Exhibition : Gallery Kriwin, Brussels, 1979
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"Germination" 1959, Oil on canvas, 115 x 90 cm
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"Capri" 1954, Oil on canvas
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Jean Milo and Jo Delahaut, two founding members of "Abstract art" in 1952

"Blue" 1984, Oil on canvas
Private collection

"Black and blue" 1976, Oil on canvas
SOLD

Abstract Composition 1989, Oil on canvas

"Composition" 1990, Oil on canvas
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Jo Delahaut ( Liège 1911 - Brussels 1992 ) was at the forefront of Geometric Abstraction in Belgium after World War II. He was the first member of "La Jeune Peinture Belge" ("Young Belgian Painters") (1945-1948) who decided in 1946 to make exclusively abstract works under the influence of french abstract painter Auguste Herbin. Both as an artist and as a Professor and writer his influence was very important. In 1946 he became a member of the "Réalités nouvelles" in Paris. In 1952 he was co-founder, together with Pol Bury, Jean Milo, Georges Collignon a.o. of the group "Abstract Art" and in 1954 he published, with Pol Bury, the "Spatialism" manifest.
Selection of exhibitions : Brussels, Galerie Lou Cosyn, 1950; Galerie Apollo, 1955; Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1958 (with Jean Milo) and in 1969; Paris, Galerie du Damier, 1966; Koblenz-Cologne, Teufel Gallery 1969, 1973, 1979, 1982, 1988; Paris, Galerie Lahumière 1969; London, Alexander Postan Gallery, 1974; Galerie Armorial, 1978; Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm Hack museum, 1981; Düren, L. Hoesch museum; Brussels, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.
Group exhibitions in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Virgina, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rome, The Hague, Rotterdam, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Geneva, Basel, Lisbon, Budapest.
His work can be found in the Art Institute of Chicago, at the Wilhelm Hack museum in Ludwigshafen and at all major belgian museums. 

 

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