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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

BRASSEUR, C., Antoine Mortier: The Transfiguration of Reality, Prismes, Brussels, 2012.

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

From VREE, F., “Antoine Mortier,” in: Kunst en Cultuur, May 1986.

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.

L.D.H., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Libre Belgique, November 26, 1967.

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.

M. C. (Marc CALLEWAERT), “Contemporary Art from Flanders and the Netherlands,” in: De Gazet van Antwerpen, February 16, 1961.

MARIE F.M., “Mortier,” in: Volonté, Brussels, May 21, 1949.

MARIJNISSEN, R.H., “De Action Painting van Antoine Mortier,” in: De Standaard, December 10, 1969.

MARLIER, G., “Art Jeune 1943: Landscapes, Parks, and Gardens,” in: Le Soir, July 7, 1943.

MEURIS, J., “Four Artists from the Jeune Peinture Era,” in: Industrie, Brussels, December 1969.

MEURIS, J., “From the 1950s to the 1980s: Six Contemporary Belgian Artists,” in: La Libre Belgique, May 2, 1986.

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.

PIGEON, J., “Antoine Mortier” in: La Libre Belgique, March 14, 1975.

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.

REY, S., “From the Sentimental to the Cynical,” in: Le Phare Dimanche, December 4, 1955.

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REY, S., “Painting with a Broom: A. Mortier,” in: Le Phare Dimanche, May 15, 1949.

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R.G., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La dernière heure, December 17, 1952.

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SOSSET, L.L., “Among the Exhibitions,” in: La Nouvelle Gazette de Bruxelles, April 14, 1955.

SOSSET, L.L., “Antoine Mortier gives free rein to the passion of his temperament in his paintings,” in: Journal des Beaux-Arts—No. 590, December 12, 1952.

SOSSET, L.L., “Antoine Mortier,” in: La Nouvelle gazette, La Louvière, March 3, 1954.

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SOSSET, L.L., “Antoine Mortier’s Surprising Exhibition,” in: La Nouvelle Gazette de Bruxelles, December 1952.

SOSSET, L.L., “At the Galerie Aujourd’hui. “Antoine Mortier’s Drawings Reveal (sic) the Painter’s Pioneering Role,” in: Journal des Beaux-Arts—No. 880, January 15, 1960.

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SOSSET, L.L., “From G. Van de Woestyne to A. Mortier,” in: La Nouvelle Gazette de Bruxelles, April 12, 1949.

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SOSSET, L.L., “In Antwerp: Mortier Opens a New Kind of Gallery,” in: Journal des Beaux-Arts—No. 1159, March 18, 1967.

SOSSET, L.L., “Mortier’s Blacks and Whites… and Gaul’s Signals,” in: Journal des Beaux-Arts—No. 1183, November 25, 1967.

SOSSET, L.L., “Mortier’s Drawings at the ‘Zodiaque’,” in: Journal des Beaux-Arts—No. 950, November 13, 1961.

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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.

FIERENS, P., Antoine Mortier: Paintings and Drawings, Brussels, Galerie Les Contemporains, 1955.

FIERENS, P., Mortier, Paris, Galerie Colette Allendy, 1958.

FIERENS, P., Mortier, Recent Works, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1967.

From VREE, P., DYPREAU, J., Mortier: A Retrospective Exhibition, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1969.

from VREE, P., Kontrasten 1947/1967: Painting in Belgium, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 1968.

GEIRLANDT, K.J., PALM, R., MORTIER, F., Mortier, Waregem, Galerie Aksent, 1973.

LANGUI, E., MEURIS, J., MORTIER, F., Antoine Mortier: Paintings and Drawings, Brussels, Galerie Farber, 1975.

LEONARD, R., VANDEVIVERE, I., Antoine Mortier, Museum of Louvain-la-Neuve, 1991.

MERTENS, P., De overgang 1945–1972: Young Belgian Painting, Stedelijk Museum, Leuven, 1972.

MERTENS, P., MORTIER, F., Antoine Mortier, Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 1986.

MESKENS, E., Antoine Mortier, Ghent, Magnus Fine Arts, 1990.

MEURIS, J., Antoine Mortier, Brussels, Center for Contemporary Art, 1988.

MORTIER, F., Mortier, Antwerp, Galerij Jeanne Buytaert, 1970.

MORTIER, Françoise, Encrée en matière, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Brussels—December 2019.

PALM, R., Antoine Mortier: Drawings, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1986.

PAS, J., Antoine Mortier, Vera Van Laer Gallery, Knokke, 1990.

ROUSSEAU, R., Art of the 21st Century, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1958.

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VAN LERBERGHE, J., 30th Biennale, Venice, Belgian Pavilion, 1960.

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