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Pierre Wemaëre (October 1, 1913 – January 8, 2010) was a French painter and tapestry designer.

Biography

Wemaëre was born in Comines, France in 1913.^[1] Wemaëre was a student in Fernand Léger's Atelier de l'Art Contemporain in the mid 1930s.^[2][3][4] In the 1940s Wemaëre took up weaving and tapestry design as part of his art practice.^[5] He was a long-time friend and collaborator with Asger Jorn, who he had met at Leger's Atelier.^[6]

He died in Versailles, France in 2010.^[1]

Collections

His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,^[7] the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,^[8] the Centre Pompidou, Paris^[1] and the Tate Museum, London.^[9]

His series entitled "double pris" (literally double take"), was produced during the late 1960's into fall 1974. These experimental pieces saw Pierre create 2 artworks of the same subject. The first, was painted with his non-dominant right hand, and the second, the same image, with his dominant hand, but given a self-imposed 3 minute time limit.

His Double Pris collection, while not gaining much collector regard, has proven very popular in the avant guard collector circles.

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