Michel Seuphor - screen print from 64 Hexagrammes du Yi-King - 1986

Very beautiful screen print by Michel Seuphor on Japanese paper.
Signed and numbered (edition III).

Fernand Berckelaers, born in Antwerp in 1901, adopted the pseudonym 'Michel Seuphor' (an anagram for 'Orpheus') in 1917. Through his long career as an artist, art critic, poet, and writer, he made a significant contribution to art history. In 1921, Seuphor founded the Antwerp avant-garde magazine 'Het Overzicht'. From 1922 onwards, Seuphor moved in the heart of the European avant-garde in Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, and Paris, alongside the pioneers of Cubism, Dada, Futurism, Constructivism, and Neoplasticism, including Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. In 1925, Seuphor settled in Paris, and in 1929, he co-founded 'Cercle et Carré', a group dedicated to abstraction. Seuphor organized the group's exhibitions and brought together groundbreaking abstract artists such as Schwitters, Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Arp, and Léger. Seuphor's oeuvre was characterized by the exclusive use of paper, pen drawing, and Indian ink. He played with light and dark by drawing parallel lines close together—abstract forms emerged from this interplay of lines.