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Alla auktioner / Samtida Konst / Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024) - Composition Cobra aux figures
Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024) Gesture composition Cobra with figures Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper, circa 1975 Signature: Not signed on the recto. Studio stamp on the back: "Marcus de Vestele – Atelier de l’artiste" Dimensions: 48.5 × 39.5 cm Sold unframed Condition: Good overall condition. Some slight signs of aging and small stains, consistent with a workshop piece from the 1970s. Paper slightly wavy in places, as is often the case with water-based mixed media. Provenance: Artist’s studio of Marcus de Vestele. Description: Beautiful gestural composition with Cobra spirit by Marcus de Vestele, created around 1975. Two presences face off on either side of a broad blue mass. On the left, a small anthropomorphic silhouette, rendered in pale flesh tones and outlined by a nervous black line, stands out against a background of blacks, orange-red, and yellows. Stacked organic shapes, almost totemic, punctuate the left edge. On the right, a large vertical yellow figure, built from flat areas and covered with a network of black calligraphic ink, evokes a character or a totem with a fragmented face. In the center, a vast blue circular splotch, worked in wash and dotted, anchors the composition like a watery or cosmic mass. Brown, ochre, and gray-purple washes frame the whole, giving it atmospheric depth. The treatment is typically Cobra: spontaneity of gesture, pure and contrasting colors, constant tension between figurative elements and abstraction. The work exudes strong visual energy, both primitive and almost ritual. A colorful, dynamic piece characteristic of Marcus de Vestele’s paper production in the 1970s, direct from the artist’s studio. Biography Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024) is a major Belgian artist, best known as a marble sculptor (notably in Carrara and with Bardiglio marble). Parallel to his sculptural practice, he developed throughout his life a significant pictorial production, long kept private and now sought after by collectors. Strongly influenced by the Cobra movement (Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Corneille, Constant…), Marcus de Vestele drew on it to create abstract-figurative compositions of great expressive power. His works on paper from the 1970s are characterized by a spontaneous line, free gestural handling, and a constant tension between figuration and abstraction. His drawings, washes and gouaches combine the discipline of the sculptor with the lyrical, gestural explosion inherent to Cobra. Directly from the studio, this on-paper production constitutes an essential and distinctive facet of his work, occupying a special place in Belgian art of the second half of the 20th century.
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