Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024) - Composition Cobra

Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024) Composition Cobra Watercolor, ink and wash on paper, circa 1975 Signature : Unsigned on the front. Studio stamp on the back: « Marcus de Vestele – Atelier de l’artiste » Dimensions : 30.5 × 22 cm Sold unframed Condition : Generally good studio condition. Some light aging traces, consistent with a work from the 1970s originating directly from the studio. Provenance : Artist Marcus de Vestele's studio. Description Composition Cobra by Marcus de Vestele, produced around 1975. The work is organized on two contrasted registers. On the left, a barely sketched blue frame contains black interwoven forms, almost calligraphic, evoking signs or elementary silhouettes. On the right, a broad vertical yellow band is interrupted by a small textured black motif, placed like a seal. The gesture remains spontaneous and tense, typical Cobra: economy of means, tension between rudimentary figuration and abstraction, strong opposition of colors. The whole has a strong graphic presence, at once primitive and constructed. A characteristic piece of Marcus de Vestele's paper production in the 1970s, coming directly from the artist's studio. Biography Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024) is a major Belgian artist, primarily recognized as a marble sculptor (notably in Carrara and with Bardiglio marble). Alongside his sculptural practice, he developed throughout his life a significant pictorial output, for a long time kept confidential and today sought after by collectors. Strongly influenced by the Cobra movement (Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Corneille, Constant…), Marcus de Vestele draws inspiration from it to create abstract-figurative compositions of great expressive power. His works on paper from the 1970s are characterized by spontaneous line, free gestural, and a constant tension between figuration and abstraction. His drawings, washes and gouaches combine the rigor of the sculptor with the lyric, gestural explosion characteristic of Cobra. Directly from the studio, this body of paper works constitutes an essential and distinctive facet of his oeuvre, occupying a place apart in Belgian art of the second half of the 20th century.

Estimate:£337.92

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