Georges Collignon

Georges Collignon was born on August 26, 1923 in Flémalle-Haute, Belgium, and died in 2002 in Liège. He received artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège between 1939 and 1945.

Collignon began as a figurative painter, then explored Surrealism. From 1945 onwards, he turned to abstraction, creating colorful, rhythmic, and structured works. In 1950, he received the **Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge** and moved to Paris in 1951, where he founded the Art Abstrait group in 1952.

His work from the 1950s and 60s is characterized by labyrinths of color, compositions evoking landscapes seen from above, and a vibrant, energetic pictorial surface. He also explored collage, incorporating paper and fabric into his works. From 1964 onward, he reintroduced figurative elements into an abstract context, imbued with a poetic and dreamlike quality.

Collignon exhibits in Liège, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris, Pittsburgh, Rio de Janeiro… He receives several awards: Prix Jeune Peinture Belge (1950), Prix Hélène Jacques (1952), Prix Marzotto (1960), Guggenheim award (1960).

His work is part of numerous public collections: Museum of Modern Art of Liège, Royal Museums of Belgium, Mu.ZEE (Ostend), Centre Pompidou, Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh), MoMA São Paulo, among others.

Georges Collignon died in 2002. His work, spanning abstraction and figuration, continues to be recognized and presented through retrospectives and auctions, attesting to a sustained interest in his art.