Pierre Wemaëre
Pierre Wemaëre (October 1, 1913 – January 8, 2010) was a French painter and tapestry designer. Biography Wemaëre was born in Comines, France in 1913. Wemaëre was a student in Fernand Léger's Atelier de l'Art Contemporain in the mid 1930s. In the 1940s Wemaëre took up weaving and tapestry design as part of his art practice. He was a long-time friend and collaborator with Asger Jorn, who he had met at Leger's Atelier. He died in Versailles, France in 2010. Collections His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Tate Museum, London. His series entitled "double pris" (literally double take"), was produced during the late 1960's into fall 1974. These experimental pieces saw Pierre create 2 artworks of the same subject. The first, was painted with his non-dominant right hand, and the second, the same image, with his dominant hand, but given a self-imposed 3 minute ...
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Comines, France
Comines (; ) is a commune of the Nord department in northern France. Geography The town of Comines sits on the Franco-Belgian border and is split into two parts: Comines (France) and Comines (Belgium), part of the municipality of Comines-Warneton. Population Heraldry Sights The belfry of Comines was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Belfries of Belgium and France in 2005, in recognition of its importance to the history of municipal power in Europe. See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 647 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually modified into a more Figurative art, figurative, populism, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art. Biography Léger was born in Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897 to 1899, before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. After military service in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, Yvelines, in 1902–1903, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts after his application to the École des Beaux-Arts was rejected. He nevertheless attended the Beaux-Arts as a non-enrolled student, spending what he described as "three empty an ...
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