Pol Bury Belgium, France (1922-2005) "Cinetization X" 1966 portfolio of 10 color lithographs All numbered 7/62 lower left and signed lower right. Biography from Tate Modern/Tate Gallery, London: Pol Bury was a Belgian kinetic artist, painter and film-maker, born in Haine-Saint-Pierre. After studying briefly at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Mons 1938-9, he frequented the circle of Surrealist poets at La Louvière and was influenced by the paintings of Magritte and Tanguy. His own painting was largely interrupted from 1940 to 1945. He was epresented in the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Brussels 1945. Painted geometrical abstract pictures 1949-53 and was associated with the COBRA group 1949-51, but in 1953 started to make 'plans mobiles' of painted shapes which could be pivoted manually on their axis. He had his irst principal one-man exhibition at the Galerie Apollo, Brussels, 1953. That same year, he gave up painting and experimented with various types of kinetic works, introducing motors in 1957 and making the parts move with an almost imperceptible but jerky slowness, and in a random way. He moved to France in 1961 (first Fontenay-aux-Roses, then Saulx-les-Chartreux), and from 1964 frequently visited the USA. His later works also include cinetizations of photographs and engravings, a few large-scale sculptures such as 25 Tons of Columns and several films. He primarily lived in Paris. 24"H x 17 1/2"W