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All auctions / Contemporary Art / Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024) - Composition Cobra aux figure debout - 1974
Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024) Cobra Composition Watercolor and ink on paper, 1974 Signature: Signed and dated bottom right: MARCUS 74 Back studio stamp: “Marcus de Vestele – Artist’s Studio” Dimensions: 48.5 × 37 cm Sold unframed Condition: Good general studio condition. Some slight signs of age, in keeping with a work from the 1970s coming directly from the artist’s studio. Provenance: Artist’s studio of Marcus de Vestele. Description Cobra Composition by Marcus de Vestele, dated 1974. Four dark silhouettes stand in a blue and earthy space. The figures are elemental, almost archaic: black and gray masses, crude lines, static or slightly languid poses. A broad blue field structures the right side, while an ochre-red band anchors the bottom of the composition. The gesture is spontaneous, economical, typically Cobra: primitive figuration, tension between human presence and abstraction. The work possesses a theatrical and primitive quality, at once fragile and monumental. A characteristic piece of Marcus de Vestele’s paper-based production from the mid-1970s, 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 body of pictorial work, long 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 drew 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 gesture, and a constant tension between figuration and abstraction. His drawings, washes, and gouaches combine the rigor of the sculptor with the lyrical, gestural explosion characteristic of Cobra. Directly from the studio, this on-paper production constitutes an essential and singular facet of his oeuvre, occupying a special place in Belgian art of the second half of the 20th century.
Estimate:£339.1
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