Solo exhibitions
1946
Galerie Apollo, Brussels
5 – 17 January 1946
1948
Galerie Dietrich, Brussels
10 – 22 January 1948
1949
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
7 – 18 May 1949
1950
Galerie Le diable par la queue, Brussels
4 – 15 March 1950
1952
Cercle royal artistique et littéraire, Ghent
9 – 23 November 1952
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
13 – 24 December 1952
1954
Galerie Ex-Libris, Brussels
20 February – 1 March 1954
1955
Galerie Les contemporains, Brussels
1 – 14 April 1955
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
26 November – 7 December 1955
1957
Galerie Taptoe, Brussels
1 – 18 March 1957
Galerie Le Verseau, Brussels
2 – 14 March 1957
1958
Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris
21 March – 5 April 1958
1960
Galerie Aujourd'hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
16 – 30 January 1960
1961
Galerie le Zodiaque, Brussels
28 October – 9 November 1961
1963
Galerie le Zodiaque, Brussels
15 – 27 November 1963
1965
Kasteelke, Mullem
5 – 26 June 1965
Galerij M.A.S., Deinze
18 September – 10 October 1965
Galerie le Zodiaque, Brussels
28 October – 16 November 1965
1967
Galerij Jeanne Buytaert, Antwerp
2 – 30 March 1967
Galerij Jeanne Buytaert, Antwerp
15 September – 20 October 1967
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
23 October – 10 December 1967
1968
Galerij Jeanne Buytaert, Antwerp
15 November – 20 December 1968
1969
Galerie Foncke, Ghent
n.d. 1969
Galerij Vansteenkiste, Poperinge
11 October – 23 November 1969
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
25 November – 24 December 1969
1970
Galerij Jeanne Buytaert, Antwerp
20 February – 20 March 1970
Galerie Maya, Brussels
30 October – 24 November 1970
1973
Galerij Aksent, Waregem
18 March – 23 April 1973
1974
Galerie M.A.S., Deinze
n.d. 1974
Galerie M.A.S., Knokke-Zoute
n.d. 1974
1975
Galerie Farber, Brussels
5 March – 14 April 1975
Galerie La Sarbacane, Charleroi
14 October – 5 November 1975
1976
Galerie Farber, Brussels
22 April – 15 May 1976
1978
Galerij Jeanne Buytaert, Antwerp
13 January – 3 February 1978
1979
Galerie Delta, Brussels
15 November – 16 December 1979
1986
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
20 March – 11 May 1986
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
23 April – 8 June 1986
MCO (Management, Culture, Organisation), Brussels
14 May – 28 June 1986
1987
De Gryse Gallery, Tielt
19 September – 18 October 1987
1988
Centre d'art contemporain, Brussels
7 October – 5 November 1988
1989
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
2 September – 15 October 1989
Foyer TRM, Brussels
10 – 27 September 1989
1990
Vera Van Laer Gallery, Knokke
3 February – 4 March 1990
Magnus Fine Arts, Ghent
16 September – 14 October 1990
1991
Louvain-la-Neuve Museum
8 March – 14 April 1991
Vera Van Laer Gallery, Knokke
21 September – 19 October 1991
1994
Museum Dhondt-Daenens, Deurle
1 February – 3 March 1994
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
7 May – 15 August 1994
Galerie Le triangle bleu, Stavelot
7 August – 18 September 1994
1996
Galerie Cyan, Liège
10 October – 3 November 1996
1997
Galerie Pierre Hallet, Brussels
13 December 1997 – 18 January 1998
2000
Traveling Exhibition
Botanique, Brussels
Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend
Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain, Liège
Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris
14 January 2000 – 25 February 2001
2001
Galerie Pierre Hallet, Brussels
15 November – 12 December 2001
2008
Galerie Pierre Hallet, Brussels
2 October – 11 November 2008
2012
Antoine Mortier. La transfiguration du réel
Anciens Abattoirs, Mons
29 September 2012 – 6 January 2013
Galerie Pierre Hallet, Brussels
2 October – 15 November 2012
2014
Galerie Pierre Hallet, Brussels
13 November – 14 December 2014
2015
Antoine Mortier – Le sens de la ligne
Galerie Pierre Hallet and galerie Les Années 50, Brussels
3 – 30 December 2015
2016
Belgian abstract Art, Antoine Mortier (1908-1999)
Boon Gallery, Knokke-Zoute
25 March – 10 April 2016
2018
Antoine Mortier, encres & huiles
Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Paris
19 January – 24 February 2018
2019
Antoine Mortier. Encrée en matière
Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China
22 November 2019 – 22 March 2020
2022
Antoine Mortier, La Peinture Redécouverte
Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Brussels
13 May – 9 July 2022
Antoine Mortier – Works on paper
Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Brussels
25 November 2022 – 4 February 2023
2025
Antoine Mortier, à l’occasion de Brussels Art Square 20 years
Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Brussels
25 September – 15 November 2025
Group exhibitions
1952
Moderne Belgisk Malerkunst
Kunstforening, Bergen
23 May – 15 June 1952
13 belgische schilders
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
17 October – 30 November 1952
1953
2ème Biennale
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
13 December 1953 – 26 February 1954
1955
Tekeningen van James Ensor tot heden
Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden
17 June – 1 July 1955
1956
Exhibition organized by Dr. Peeters
Stadshallen, Bruges
n.d. 1956
Facetten II Hedendaagse Belgische en Nederlandse schilderkunst
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
8 November 1956 – 14 January 1957
1959
The Fifth International Art Exhibition of Japan, traveling exhibition
Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, ...
9 May – 31 December 1959
Belgian Art
R.S. Johnson Gallery, Chicago
18 June – 19 July 1959
1960
30ème Biennale
Belgian Pavilion, Venice
18 June – 16 October 1960
1961
6th Biennial, Belgian Section
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
1 September – 1 December 1961
Belgian Drawings from Ensor to Delvaux
Smithsonian Institution, Washington
1 December 1961 – 1 February 1962
1962
Belgische schilderkunst 1945-1962
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
5 July – 12 August 1962
1963
Profile II Belgische Kunst heute
Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum
21 April – 19 May 1963
De Abstracte schilderkunst in Vlaanderen
Hessenhuis, Antwerp
14 December 1963 – 19 January 1964
1964
3 Belgen A. Mortier, L. Van Lint, J. Burssens
Cultureel centrum de Beyerd, Bred
24 May – 29 June 1964
32nd Biennale
Belgian Pavilion, Venice
20 June – 18 October 1964
Figuratie-Defiguratie. De menselijke figuur sedert Picasso
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
10 July – 4 October 1964
1966
Contemporary Belgian Painting
Falmer House, University of Sussex Arts Center
15 February – 8 March 1966
Bryggium
Stadshallen, Bruges
11 June – 4 September 1966
1968
Kontrasten 1947/1967 schilderkunst in België.
Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
18 February – 12 May 1968
1970
Un demi-siècle d’art en Roman Pays de Brabant
Inst. Prov. Arts et métiers, Nivelles then Leuven and Saintes
9 – 25 May 1970
1972
De overgang 1945-1972: jonge Belgische schilderkunst
Stedelijk Museum, Leuven
28 July – 15 October 1972
10 peintres et 5 sculpteurs
Maison des Arts, Villers-la-Ville
9 – 24 September 1972
1973
Ung Belgisk Malerkunst, traveling exhibition
Odense, Prague, Budapest
n.d. 1973
1979
La jeune peinture belge
Philips N.V., Brussels
1 January – 1 February 1979
1982
26ème salon Rencontre 82 L’art belge depuis 1945
Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre
16 October – 22 November 1982
1983
L’abstraction en Belgique: Confrontation 1920-1945
Galerie de prêt d’œuvres d’Art, Woluwé-Saint-Lambert
23 September – 29 October 1983
Expressionnisme abstrait en Belgique 50-60 Mortier-Van Anderlecht-Vandercam
Fondation pour l’Art belge contemporain, Brussels
16 October – 12 November 1983
Informele kunst in België en Nederland, 1955-’60
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
29 October – 31 December 1983
1984
Informele kunst in België en Nederland, 1955-’60
Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
4 February – 25 March 1984
1992
La jeune peinture belge 1945-1948
Galerie Crédit Communal, Brussels
1 September – 22 November 1992
1993
Mortier – Van Anderlecht
Group2 Gallery, Brussels
1 April – 24 May 1993
2000
Mortier, Van Lint, Mendelson
Galerie Pierre Hallet, Brussels
17 June – 30 July 2000
2003
Van Anderlecht – Mortier
Group2 Gallery, Brussels
10 April – 24 May 2003
Gelijk het leven is
Stedelijk Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent
28 June – 14 September 2003
2004
Entre Cobra et Abstraction collection T. Neirynck
Bellevue Museum, Brussels
14 May – 26 September 2004
2013
“Hyle”: The Anonymous Form
Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen
16 June – 13 October 2013
Summertime
Galerie Pierre Hallet, Brussels
3 – 27 August 2013
Proposal 1–2
Galerie Pierre Hallet, Brussels
23 September 2013 – 12 January 2014
2014
Belgian Art—Between Dreams and Reality: Masterpieces from the Ixelles Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds
9 March – 1 June 2014
Léon-Louis Sosset: A Critic’s Eye
Marthe Donas Museum, Ittre
26 April – 8 June 2014
The Power of Black and White
Group 2 Gallery, Brussels
21 November – 20 December 2014
2015
One Connections
mvArtcenter, Antwerp
19 September 2015 – 16 July 2016
2016
A Look at Postwar Belgian Art: The Caroline and Maurice Verbaet Collection
Estrine Museum, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
6 March – 5 June 2016
2019
Painting Belgium
Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels
6 September – 21 December 2019
2020
Abstract Art: A Bird's-Eye View
FeliXart Museum in collaboration with the Ixelles Museum, Drogenbos
13 June 2020 – 14 January 2021
ArtAutun
Rolin Museum – Panoptic Prison, Autun
4 July – 27 September 2020
2022
From the Private to the Public. The Thomas Neirynck Collection: From Emotion to Lyrical Expression
FeliXart Museum, Drogenbos
3 February 2022 – 25 September 2023
2023
Informal Art in Belgium
Callewaert Vanlangendonck Gallery, Antwerp
10 September – 19 November 2023
100 years Belgian Art
Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke
21 October 2023 – 7 January 2024
Monographies
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FIERENS, P., Antoine Mortier, Brussels, Elsevier (Monographies de l'Art belge series), 1956.
GEIRLANDT, K. and MORTIER, F., Antoine Mortier, publisher unknown, place of publication unknown, 1973.
GEIRLANDT, K., LEGRAND, F.-C., BOREL, F., HOET, J., MORTIER, F., Antoine Mortier, ed. Lannoo, Tielt, 1989.
GILLEMON, D., FOL, C., BOENDERS, F., Antoine Mortier: The Embodied Gesture, Mercator, Antwerp, 2000.
MORTIER, F., Antoine Mortier: States of Mind: Reflections and Considerations (Alentours series), published by Tandem, Gerpinnes, 1999.
PALM, R., Antoine Mortier, ( “La petite pierre” series), En marge, Brussels, 1988.
Articles
A. G., “Three Local Abstract Artists from the ’50s,” in: Le Pourquoi Pas ?, November 29, 1983.
x., “Antoine Mortier at Colette Allendy’s,” in: Combat, Paris, March 31, 1958.
x., “Antoine Mortier at the Palace of Fine Arts,” in: De Standaard, May 11, 1948.
x., “Antoine Mortier (Dietrich),” in: La Métropole, Antwerp, January 24, 1948.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Arts, Paris, January 23, 1948.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: De Nieuwe Gazet, Antwerp, March 13, 1970.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Eksit, May–June 1975.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Gazet van Antwerpen, December 4, 1969.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Gazet van Antwerpen, December 7, 1955.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Gazet van Mechelen, December 7, 1955.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Journal des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, April–May–June 1986.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Dernière Heure, April 10, 1955.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Lanterne, December 1, 1955.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Lanterne, May 16, 1949.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Libre Belgique, November 17, 1970.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Métropole, Antwerp, December 3, 1955.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Nouvelle Gazette, December 1, 1955.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Le journal des Beaux-Arts, March 5, 1954.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Le Peuple, March 6, 1957.
x., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Le Soir, May 13, 1949.
B., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Dimanche Presse, Brussels, November 1, 1970.
BEKKERS, L., “Accusations and Resignation in Mortier’s Paintings,” in: Gazet van Antwerpen, March 10, 1994.
BEKKERS, L., “Mortier Steps Out of the Shadows,” in: De Staandard, September 30, 1989.
BEKKERS, L., “Painter Antoine Mortier Forges His Own, Difficult Path,” in: De Staandard, March 25, 1986.
x., “Belgian Artists in a Vibrant Section of the Biennial,” in: O Estado São Paulo, October 13, 1961.
BERNARD, C., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Nation belge, November 29, 1955.
BERNARD, C., “Exhibitions,” in: La Nation belge, March 1954.
BERNARD, C., “Exhibitions,” in: La Nation belge, May 10, 1949.
BERNARD, C., “Exhibitions: On Pure Painting and Painting-Music,” in: La Nation belge, April 1955.
BERNARD, C., “Young Belgian Painting: Contribution 46. A New Beginning,” in: La Nation belge, October 8, 1946.
BILCKE, M., “Antoine Mortier,” in: De gazet van Antwerpen, April 6, 1955.
BILCKE, M., “Antoine Mortier,” in: De gazet van Antwerpen, February 1954.
BILCKE, M., “PVSK Antoine Mortier,” in: De gazet van Antwerpen, November 29, 1967.
BILCKE, M., “The Zodiac: Mortier,” in: De gazet van Antwerpen, November 4, 1965.
BONNEURE, F., “Two Outstanding Artists in Ostend,” in: Vlaanderen, June 30, 2000.
BOREL, F., “Made in Belgium,” in: Pourquoi Pas?, May 28, 1986.
BOREL, F., “Metro: Pearls Before Swine,” in: Pourquoi Pas?, December 8, 1988.
BOSMAN, A., “Nieuwe Belgische kunst,” in: Algemene Dagblad, November 8, 1952.
BOTQUIN, J.M., “Antoine Mortier: A Retrospective of an Avant-Garde,” in: La Cité, April 2, 1986.
BRAET, J., “Het brood der zwarte jaren,” in: Knack, No. 38, September 20, 1989.
BRUGGEMAN, L., “Paleis voor Schone Kunsten. Mortier,” in: Het Volk, Ghent, November 4, 1967.
by SOLIER, R., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Quadrum—No. 9, Brussels, 1961.
CALEWAERT, M., “Exhibitions in Antwerp: Mortier,” in: Gazet van Antwerpen, March 15, 1967.
CASO, P., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Le Soir, December 1, 1967.
CASO, P., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Le Soir, November 29, 1955.
CASO, P., “Art Exhibitions: Antoine Mortier,” in: Le Soir, December 2, 1969.
CASO, P., “Art Exhibitions: Antoine Mortier,” in: Le Soir, November 14, 1965.
CASO, P., “Mortier’s Lyrical Abstraction: A Romantic’s Ritual Struggle,” in: Le Soir, March 28, 1975.
C.B., “Exhibitions,” in: La Nation belge, May 10, 1949.
CHRISTIAENS, J., “Antoine Mortier Creates Memorable Moments,” in: Grenz-Echo, August 26, 1994.
CIMAISE, J., “A Double Tribute,” in: Le Drapeau Rouge, September 20, 1989.
CIMAISE, J., “Abstract Expressionism,” in: Le Drapeau Rouge, October 16, 1983.
CIMAISE, J., “Exhibitions: Thirty Years Later,” in: Le Drapeau Rouge, November 12, 1969.
CIMAISE, J., “The Art of Antoine Mortier,” in: Le Drapeau Rouge, March 27, 1986.
COLLARD, J., “Delahaut-Mortier-Cox, or Young Painting Twenty Years Later,” in: Le Pourqoi Pas?, December 18, 1969.
COLLEYE, H. “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Métropole, January 10, 1946.
x., “Contemporary Trends,” in: La nouvelle Gazette, La Louvière, May 1, 1946.
D. G., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Jalons et Actualités des Arts – No. 23, Brussels, April 1976.
D. O., “At the Farber Gallery: Antoine Mortier,” in: L’Eventail, Brussels, March 21, 1975.
DE CNODDER, R., “Mortier Conveys His Message in a Language of Secret Signs,” in: Spectator, December 14, 1969.
DE CNODDER, R., “The Art of Antoine Mortier,” in: Spectator, April 3, 1975.
DE ROEY, J., “A Tonalist Between Greedy White and Black,” in: Knack, May 13, 1986.
De VREE, P., “Antoine Mortier, 1908 Gekleurde transpositie,” in: Openbaar kunsbezit Vlaanderen, vol. 5, 1967.
DECAPAN, “Antoine Mortier,” in: Pan, April 30, 1986.
DESPRECHINS, R., “On the Antoine Mortier Exhibition at the Cercle Artistique,” in: La Flandre Libérale, Ghent, November 29, 1952.
DEVOGHELAERE, M., “A Double Tribute to Mortier and Geirlandt,” in: Het Laatse Nieuws, September 11, 1989.
D’HAESE, J., “Abstract Painting in Flanders,” in: De Spectator, December 29, 1963.
DOBSON, R., “Six on Show,” in: The Bulletin, Brussels, May 16, 1986.
DOSSOGNE, L., “Antoine Mortier: Sombere Tekens,” in: Gazet van Antwerpen, June 9, 2000.
D.P., “Werk Outsider Mortier Exhibits in Tielt,” in: Het Volk, September 23, 1987.
D.P., “Work Between Primordial Force and Decorum: Antoine Mortier in Deurle—A Retrospective That Doesn’t Want to Be a Retrospective,” in: Gentenaar, February 25, 1994.
x., “Drawings by Antoine Mortier: Monumental Abstract Lyricism,” in: Le Soir, May 6, 1976.
DUSTIN, J., “Antoine Mortier in Stavelot: A Painter of International Stature,” in: Le Soir, August 31, 1994.
DUSTIN, J., “The Sablon Foundation,” in: Le Drapeau Rouge, October 25, 1983.
DUSTIN, J., “Walter Leblanc and Antoine Mortier, Galerie Pierre Hallet,” in: Le Soir, January 14, 1998.
DYPREAU, J., “New Trends in Belgium and the Netherlands,” in: XXth Century, No. 28, June 1967.
E. C. S., “Recent Acquisition: Room of Contemporary Art Collection,” in: Gallery Notes—Vol. XVII, No. 2&3, The Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, June 1953.
FLORISOONE, M., “At the Galerie de France: Belgian Artists,” in: La Libre Belgique, March 29, 1946.
FOL, C., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Le Botanique—No. 2, 2000.
FONTIER, J., “Antoine Mortier,” in: De Periscoop—No. 7, May 1973.
Françoise Mortier, En tête à tête, Alentours series, Tandem Publishing, 2022
Françoise Mortier, États d’âmes, Réflexions et considérations, Alentours series, Tandem Publishing, December 1999
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x., “Galerie Dietrich,” in: La Nation belge, January 14, 1948.
x., “Galerie Dietrich,” in: La Nouvelle Gazette, January 8, 1948.
GENEVIEVE, “Antoine Mortier at La Sarbacane,” in: La Nouvelle Gazette, Charleroi, October 17, 1975.
GERMOZ, A., “Three Local Abstract Artists from the ’50s,” in: Pourquoi Pas?, November 9, 1983.
GILLEMON, D., “Antoine Mortier: A Monumental Alphabet,” in: Le Soir, December 6, 2001.
GILLEMON, D., “Antoine Mortier, an Abstract Artist Who Never Loses His Freshness,” in: Le Soir, September 14, 1989.
GILLEMON, D., “Antoine Mortier at the Museum: Nostalgia for the Monumental,” in: Le Soir, April 11, 1986.
GILLEMON, D., “Antoine Mortier: Between Light and Shadow,” in: Le Soir, January 26, 2000.
GILLEMON, D., “The Passion of a Pioneer, Never Without Purpose,” in: Le Soir, January 27, 1999.
GILSOUL, G., “Cyclopean Mortar,” in: Le Vif/L’Express – No. 161, March 21, 1986.
GILSOUL, G., “Death to Rats,” in: Le Vif/L'Express, January 21, 2000.
GILSOUL, G., “Did You Say ‘Abstract’? Abstraction vs. Figuration: An Old Debate Brought Back into the Spotlight by 1950s Fashion,” in: Le Vif/L’Express – No. 293, September 30, 1988.
GOLDMANN, Jean., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Les Cahiers de la peinture – No. 200, Paris, 1986.
HAESAERTS, P., “Recent Developments in Belgian Painting,” in: Les Arts plastique – No. 1, Brussels, 1947.
HAUSER, R., “Watch Out, Visual Arts!” in: Le journal du médecin – No. 287, Brussels, April 4, 1986.
x., “Intimate Layers,” in: Spécial, November 17, 1975.
J. D., “Belgian Art at the Venice Biennale,” in: Het Belang van Limburg, Hasselt, August 23, 1960.
J. M., “Abstract Expressionism in Belgium: Three Painters,” in: La Libre Belgique, February 14, 1983.
J. M., “De tekens van Mortier,” in: Rode Vaan, April 24, 1946.
J. M., “Mortier, Willequet, Hoenraet,” in: La Libre Belgique, November 23, 1979.
J. P. (Jean PIGEON), “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Libre Belgique, March 14, 1975.
J. P. (Jean PIGEON), “Exhibitions That Are Shaking Up the Visual Arts in the Pays Noir: Antoine Mortier,” in: La Libre Belgique, October 23, 1975.
J. P. (Jean PIGEON), “Pierre Soulages in Charleroi,” in: La Libre Belgique, November 3, 1973.
J. R., “The Power of Mortier: Discovery or Relief,” in: Nieuwsblad, May 1, 1986.
KNAEPEN, J., “Abstract Expressionism in Belgium,” in: The Bulletin, Brussels, September 1983.
KNAEPEN, J., “Neglected Giant,” in: The Bulletin, Brussels, April 25, 1986.
KORUN, W., “Note on Young Painters in Belgium,” in: I 4 Soli, Turin, July–August 1955.
LANC, E., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Le mensuel littéraire et poétique – No. 278, March 2000.
L.D.H., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Libre Belgique, May 11, 1949.
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L.D.H., “Figuration and Defiguration,” in: La Libre Belgique, July 22, 1964.
x., “Le Temps du muguet,” in: Arts Magazine – No. 36, 1986.
LEGRAND, F., “The Embrace of Suffering and Joy,” in: Art & Culture, September 1989.
M. Bs., “Antoine Mortier: Powerful Dynamism with Simple Means,” in: De Nieuwe Gazet, Antwerp, January 17, 1978.
M. C. (Marc CALLEWAERT), “Antoine Mortier,” in: De Gazet van Mechelen, September 11, 1957.
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MARLIER, G., “Art Jeune 1943: Landscapes, Parks, and Gardens,” in: Le Soir, July 7, 1943.
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MEURIS, J., “Mortier: A Lesson in Painting,” in: La Libre Belgique, March 28, 1986.
MEURIS, J., “Mortier,” in: Monimat, December 1, 1955.
MEURIS, J., “The Antoine Mortier Office,” in: La Libre Belgique, October 14, 1988.
MINNE, M., “The Passion of Art,” in: La Cité, October 5, 1989.
x., “Mortier Conveys His Message in a Language of Secret Signs,” in: Nieuwe Gids, Brussels, December 14, 1969.
x., “Mortier: The Expressive Power of Dark Structures,” in: Gazet van Antwerpen, Brussels, December 14, 1969.
N.V.K., “Galerie Dietrich Antoine Mortier,” in: Nieuwe Gids, Brussels, January 25, 1978.
PALM, R., “Antoine Mortier: The Quest for Self,” in: La Revue nouvelle, Brussels, November 6, 1969.
PANCHROME, “At the Palais des Beaux-Arts,” in: Pan, May 12, 1949.
P.D., “Antoine Mortier: Recent Paintings,” in: Journal des Beaux-Arts, May 1949.
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PIGEON, J., “Mortier Retrospective: In the Arena of His Work…,” in: Pourquoi Pas?, April 2, 1986.
POPELIER, B., “Het overbodige moest weg,” in: Tijd cultuur, January 19, 2000.
PUTMAN, J., “Contribution 46 to the Apollo Galleries,” in: Les Breaux-Arts, October 11, 1946.
R. V. G., “A Belgian Painter: A. Mortier,” in: Journal des Beaux-Arts, No. 807, April 4, 1958.
RANSON, J., “Abstraction in Belgium: A Radical Break” in: De Morgen Gent, November 4, 1983.
RANSON, J., “Antoine Mortier: Painting the American Way” in: De Anwerpse Morgen, April 28, 1986.
R.D.C., “Mortier viriele structuur,” in: Nieuwe Gids, Brussels, January 17, 1978.
REY, S., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Le Phare Dimanche, December 7, 1969.
REY, S., “From the Beaux-Arts to the Salon d’Art,” in: Écho de la Bourse, August 27, 1994.
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SOSSET, L.L., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Le journal des Beaux-Arts, November 1952.
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Catalogue texts
BOREL, F., HOET, J., Antoine Mortier, Vera Van Laer Gallery, Knokke, 1991.
by VREE, P., and SOLIER, R., Mortier Drawings, Antwerp, Galerij Jeanne Buytaert, 1967.
DYPREAU, J., Antoine Mortier, Brussels, Galerie Le Zodiaque, 1961.
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