Caziel Polish/British, 1906-1988
WC786 - Composition X/1965, 1965
Oil on hardboard
89.5 x 50 cm
Signed and dated verso
Caziel Estate Inventory number WC786
Caziel Estate Inventory number WC786
The Caziel Estate, Courtesy of Whitford Fine Art
During 1963-1965, Caziel painted a series of painting which he explained as 'unpicking the colours on the canvas'. The present painting is a fine example of this style which is...
During 1963-1965, Caziel painted a series of painting which he explained as 'unpicking the colours on the canvas'. The present painting is a fine example of this style which is also known as his 'lacerated' style. These works are highly lyrical and result from Caziel's intentionality to commit himself to push his research into Abstraction and show his self-awareness and willingness to lay himself bare in his paintings, so that they become the embodiment of his thought, emotion and self. They are the end of a long journey, from Giotto, through Cézanne and Picasso, passing by Kandinsky and Malevich, and the reading of philosophy and art. The consciousness of the journey and the aesthetic of the essence were key to Caziel's development. These works were first exhibited by the Grabowski Gallery in London.
With his abstract works, Caziel demonstrated that the goal was to understand experience by describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event. As such Caziel's abstract paintings are inscribed into the contemporary French philosophical debate.
Born in Poland, Caziel spent the major years of his artistic development in France. His painting developed through a synthesis of many diverse elements into an individual form of 'cubist' abstraction during the 1940's. This very expressive style became apparent during his five-year close friendship with Picasso. During the 1950's his paintings evolved into rigorous geometrical patterns. His 1960s paintings illustrate several statements on his abstract work, bringing back the passionate debates of the post-war period, and Caziel's affiliations with an earlier avant-garde tradition.
Caziel exhibited at Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris and at the Grabowski Gallery in London. A major retrospective of his work was hosted by the National Museum of Warsaw in 1998.
Caziel's works are in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; National Museum, Warsaw; Vatican Museum, Rome; Lodz Museum, Lodz.
Whitford Fine Art has been representing the Estate of Caziel since 1995.
With his abstract works, Caziel demonstrated that the goal was to understand experience by describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event. As such Caziel's abstract paintings are inscribed into the contemporary French philosophical debate.
Born in Poland, Caziel spent the major years of his artistic development in France. His painting developed through a synthesis of many diverse elements into an individual form of 'cubist' abstraction during the 1940's. This very expressive style became apparent during his five-year close friendship with Picasso. During the 1950's his paintings evolved into rigorous geometrical patterns. His 1960s paintings illustrate several statements on his abstract work, bringing back the passionate debates of the post-war period, and Caziel's affiliations with an earlier avant-garde tradition.
Caziel exhibited at Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris and at the Grabowski Gallery in London. A major retrospective of his work was hosted by the National Museum of Warsaw in 1998.
Caziel's works are in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; National Museum, Warsaw; Vatican Museum, Rome; Lodz Museum, Lodz.
Whitford Fine Art has been representing the Estate of Caziel since 1995.