Pierre Wemaëre

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Pierre Wemaëre (October 1, 1913 – January 8, 2010) was a French painter and tapestry designer. He was born in Comines, France. In the mid-1930s he studied at Fernand Léger’s Atelier de l'Art Contemporain. In the 1940s he began weaving and making tapestries as part of his art. He was a long-time friend and collaborator of Asger Jorn, whom he met at Léger’s studio. He died in Versailles, France, in 2010. His work is in major collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Tate in London. One of his notable series is "double pris" (literally "double take"), created from the late 1960s to fall 1974. In this series he made two versions of the same subject: the first painted with his non-dominant right hand, and the second with his dominant hand, but under a self-imposed three-minute time limit. The Double Pris pieces did not gain much attention from collectors, but they have become popular in avant-garde circles.