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Jo Delahaut is the only non-figurative artist in the circle of Jeune Peinture Belge. Like Herbin or Dewasne or Vasarely, he stands with pre-war geometric abstraction, supporting the ideal of a ‘concrete’ art that no longer takes the to-be-reduced reality as starting point, organizing the art work exclusively in terms of forms and colours. The oeuvre of Delahaut shows systematic variation, evolving in elaborated series, tenacious and unaffected by fashion.