LATT: new art in Antwerp 1958-1962 #2 must we teach the blind to see?
(c)image: M HKA
In 1927 René Guiette moves home and studio to a house designed by Le Corbusier on the outskirts of Antwerp. He is a cosmopolitan individual, steeped in Parisian culture. This ‘portrait’ of his house - recognizable by the round window of the roof terrace - might have been painted by Léopold Survage in Neuilly. The influence of Picasso on Guiette in the 1930s, lends to this painting a character close to a still-life with collage elements or of a design for a sculpture in metal plate.