Lots 15 to 27 in this sale come from the collection of Mig Quinet.
“Painting isn't an art, it's an itch.”
Mig Quinet explored a wide variety of artistic avenues, moving from figurative art to geometric and lyrical abstraction, before returning to a more refined form of figurative art. She produced a dense, joyful, original, spirited, and poetic body of work in vibrant colors. Her early paintings are figurative, intimate, and naive, in the style of Edgard Tytgat. In the 1940s, she borrowed the principle of deconstructing objects from analytical cubism, while retaining a luminous palette.
It was during this period that she helped found the Young Belgian Painting movement alongside Gaston Bertrand, Louis Van Lint, Anne Bonnet, and Willy Anthoons. She took part in almost all of the group's events, both in Belgium and abroad, in Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, and Stockholm.
In the early 1950s, Mig Quinet initially moved towards geometric abstraction, then lyrical abstraction, in a veritable celebration of nature and its flow of materials. His work was then marked by a return to a poetic and allusive figuration, highly personal and defying classification.
Described in 1947 as “one of the best painters of her generation” by Robert L. Delevoye, Mig Quinet had six solo exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux-Arts between 1953 and 1967. A retrospective was also dedicated to her in 1988 at the Musée d'Ixelles and the Mus.e in Louvain-la-Neuve. Her collages are currently on display at the Mus.e des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi.
