SEUPHOR, Michel

Born in Antwerp of Flemish parents, Seuphor published in Belgium from 1921 to 1925 the journal Het Overzicht, which featured both art and writing. Moving to Paris, he took a French name that scrambles the letters in Orpheus and founded a group, that included Piet Mondrian, and published a magazine, Cercle et carré. In April 1930, he coorganized with Joaquin Torres-Garcia the first international exhibition of modernist Abstract Art. Seuphor wrote L'Art abstrait—ses origines, ses premiers...