Born in Brussels in 1927 and educated at the La Cambre school, Pierre Alechinsky is, in particular, one of the great figures of the Cobra movement.

Alechinsky's work is immense and world-famous. His work is marked by a strong relationship between writing and illustration, a dimension reinforced by the artist's attraction to Japanese calligraphy.

Among Alechinsky's many achievements are a number of prints from his early artistic career. He perfected his skills in Paris, where he settled in 1951, at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter. The engravings presented in the À l’œuvre exhibition are taken from a book, dated 1948, which was repressed in the early 2000s.