Pierre ALECHINSKY (born in Saint-Gilles-lez-Bruxelles (Belgium) in 1927) - "Central Park IV". 1975. Etching and lithograph in color, on wove paper. Proof numbered 34/100 and signed in pencil by the artist. From the series of four "Central Park" plates based on the artist's famous painting of Central Park as a monster devouring everyone who enters its domain. Fine proof numbered 34 from an edition at 100 and signed in gray pencil by the artist. Fine condition. Belgian painter and engraver Pierre Alechinsky's work combines expressionism and surrealism. The first work the artist painted in this way is a colored image in the center and small images all around, called "Central Park". Pierre Alechinsky recounts that he made it by observing the paths, rocks and lawns of Central Park from the top of his 35th-floor New York studio. Seen from above, he thought the park looked like a monster's mouth. So he decided to add drawings all around it, to tell the story of the disturbing things that happen around the park at night. The artist thus inaugurated "marginal remarks" painting. Framed piece. 50 x 65 cm for the frame. Condition A (not examined outside its frame, small crease at the edge of the leaf on the left, good condition when viewed).