In Homage to Webern Nos. 1, 2, and 3—a suite of three exactingly composed prints—constitutes a decisive break from Gaucher’s earlier work and contains the seeds of subsequent developments. The prints were crucial to Gaucher’s evolution into a Plasticien painter—or rather, to his birth as a post-Plasticien one.

A crucial event for the production of the Webern prints was a concert of music by Pierre Boulez, Edgard Varèse, and Anton Webern that Gaucher attended during his first visit to Paris in 1962.