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Jean-Pierre Guerrier
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Belgium
• 1936
Biography
Jean-Pierre Guerrier, originally from Banneux-Sprimont (Belgium). Born March 13, 1936 in Flémalle-Grande. Jean-Pierre Guerrier, former Academy Professor in Liège and Verviers, has received numerous national and international distinctions and has exhibited in the largest European capitals and even at the Horizon Gallery in New York. Several of his works have been sold to public and private organizations in Belgium and abroad. Naive painter. From 1953 to 1960, he was a student of G. Comhaire, JT Debattice, P. Daxhelet, H. Brasseur and C. Crommelynck at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège before becoming a professor there. He obtained several prizes and mentions: Marie Prize in 1960, Olivetti Prize in Brussels, selected by the Plastic Arts exhibition in Liège and by the Maurice Utrillo Foundation in Paris in 1964, fifth prize for easel painting for the decoration of the Hospital of the Citadel of Liège in 1977. Numerous private or group exhibitions in Belgium (Liège, Charleroi, Stavelot) and abroad (Paris, New York). JP Guerrier transposes the world of the circus and the party into a naive and poetic painting. Trapeze artists, tightrope walkers and baladins evolve in a cheerful and tender range of pastel tones applied in flat areas. Currently, Jean-Pierre Guerrier is still painting and preparing an exhibition of his latest works for spring 2018. He is very prolific and devotes a large part of his days to creation.
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