MIG QUINET
​        Founding member of "La Jeune Peinture Belge"       

Mig Quinet (Charleroi 1906 - Brussels 2001)
​Scroll down for available works and Quinet's biography
Call 02 539.23.09 or group2gallerybrussels@gmail.com for information.

The "Young belgian Painters" in Stockholm, 1947
Mig Quinet is seated second from left, far right is Odette Collon.
Standing a.o. Marc Mendelson, Louis Van Lint & Gaston Bertrand

"La nappe aux objets - Tablecloth with objects" 1948
​Gouache & ink on paper, 42 x 60 cm

"Table d'aquarelles au petit torse" 1948, Gouache & pastel, 47 x 59 cm
Exhibited at Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels 1953, Ixelles Museum 2013
​SOLD

"May-Mai 1940", Watercolour on paper, 35 x 27 cm
Belgium will always remember that month of its history..

"Jazz orchestra" 1948
​Ink on cardboard, 56 x 72 cm
​Available, call 02 539.23.09 or mail group2gallerybrussels@gmail.com

The "Young Belgian Painters" at the wedding of Marc Mendelson in 1945
​Mig Quinet is seated in the middle

 "Chute Libre - Free Fall" 1962, Mixed media on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
Exhibitions : Hessenhuis Antwerp, Mons, Louvain-la-Neuve, Knokke, Verviers, Ixelles museum
​Available, call 02 539.23.09 or group2gallerybrussels@gmail.com

Cover of the book published in 2013 on the occasion of the Quinet exhibition at the Ixelles museum, 2013

"The loops of the Ourthe river - les boucles de l'Ourthe" - "Austère Ardennes" 1965
​Oil & mixed media on canvas, 130 x 89 cm

Confluence of the 2 Ourthe rivers in the Ardennes, belgian Luxemburg province

"Nuit plissée - pleated night" 1967,  Mixed media on canvas, 71 x 57 cm

"Diabolo" 1978, Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm

"Musical fury - Colère musicale" 1966, Oil on canvas
​SOLD

Opening of the Mig Quinet show at the Ixelles museum, 2013

Jeannine Lenaerts at the opening of the Quinet exhibition at the Ixelles museum in 2013

Mig Quinet, born near Charleroi in 1906, was educated at the Fine Arts Academy in Brussels. Her first solo exhibition was held in 1938 at Galerie Manteau in Brussels. She took part in the "Apport" exhibitions at the "Galerie Apollo" from 1945 onwards. Her acquaintance with lawyer and mecenas René Lust allowed the foundation of the group of the "Jeune Peinture Belge" (Young Belgian Painters) in 1945. During a JPB exhibition in Stockholm in 1947 she was involved in a serious car accident. After a long recovery and despite the dissolution of the group in 1948, she fought like a lioness to continue her artistic career. Her abstract works of the 50's, her "allusive figurations" of the 60’s and 70’s bear witness to a joy of  life and an exceptional originality. The most typical element in her work, however, is the intense use of bright and bold colours. Its fragmented images, the violence of her palette of primary colours, her imagination, her sense of humor, her poetic sensibility, her use of pure white, her bold perspectives, her spirited writing, all this leads us to state that Mig Quinet deserves to be among the great artists, not only of the Jeune Peinture Belge, but of the Belgian modern art scene “tout court”. 
Group 2 Gallery has been promoting for several decades Quinet's oeuvre and has exhibited and sold many important paintings, gouaches and drawings. Feel free to contact us by mail group2gallerybrussels@gmail.com or by phone 02 539.23.09 for more information or if you wish to sell one of her works.

 

^ top