With its generous scale and commanding presence, this work demonstrates Pierre Célice's mastery of monumental abstraction. Large gestural forms are organised into a carefully balanced composition in which colour, rhythm and movement reinforce one another. The surface retains the immediacy of the artist's hand, allowing each brushstroke to remain visible as an essential component of the final image. This physicality lends the painting an exceptional vitality while maintaining a refined compositional harmony. Pierre Célice (1932–2019) abandoned early law studies for drawing and painting under the guidance of Henri Hayden. Working in the early 1970s in Peter Bramsen's Paris lithography studio, where he crossed paths with CoBrA artists Bram van Velde, Pierre Alechinsky, Asger Jorn and Karel Appel, Célice broke with figuration to develop his mature language of cut and layered coloured paper over gestural paint. His work entered the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Details Medium: Acrylic on canvas, framed Date: 1988 Signature: Signed & dated -front bottom right Canvas: 114,50 × 162 cm Frame: 118,50 x 166 cm This artwork forms part of the maurice verbaet collection and can be viewed in our showroom at Volkstraat 58, Antwerp.
