Caziel Polish/British, 1906-1988
WC548 - Composition X/1965, 1965
Oil on canvas
46 x 38.5 cm
Signed and dated verso
Caziel Estate Inventory number WC548
Caziel Estate Inventory number WC548
The Caziel Estate, Courtesy of Whitford Fine Art
Caziel’s paintings dating 1963-1967 demonstrate an exciting development in his research into Abstraction during his last years in France, before moving to England. The year 1965 announces the departure from...
Caziel’s paintings dating 1963-1967 demonstrate an exciting development in his research into Abstraction during his last years in France, before moving to England. The year 1965 announces the departure from the dark paintings rich in texture to create the lacerated effect to paintings with a more frugal application of the paint against a white background. Caziel made a number of these white so-called lacerated paintings in which he introduced organic and zoomorphic colourful shapes. These works were shown at his one-man shows at the Grabowski Gallery in 1966 and in 1968. Caziel's words to his wife Catherine penned down in September 1965 describes this particular progress: 'Yesterday it seemed that I painted my canvas only to unpick it to its limits'.
With his abstract works, Caziel demonstrated that his 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.
Caziel's works are present in the collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Vatican Museum, Rome and the National Museum, Warsaw; Lotdz Museum, Lodz.
Born in Poland, Caziel attended the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1931-36, where the influence of French Post-Impressionist painting was omnipresent. Revered masters amongst the students and significant influences on Caziel's early development as a painter included Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. Caziel spent the major years of his artistic development in France, following his move to Paris in 1937. His painting developed through a synthesis of many diverse elements into an individual form of 'cubist' abstraction during the 1940's, under the influence of his close friend Pablo Picasso. At that time, he declined Kahnweiler's offer to include him in his stable of figurative artists as he had found his way to Abstraction.
Caziel's work is represented in the following museums: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Vatican Museum, Rome; National Museum, Warsaw; Łodz Museum, Lodz.
Whitford Fine Art has represented the Estate of Caziel since 1995.
With his abstract works, Caziel demonstrated that his 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.
Caziel's works are present in the collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Vatican Museum, Rome and the National Museum, Warsaw; Lotdz Museum, Lodz.
Born in Poland, Caziel attended the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1931-36, where the influence of French Post-Impressionist painting was omnipresent. Revered masters amongst the students and significant influences on Caziel's early development as a painter included Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. Caziel spent the major years of his artistic development in France, following his move to Paris in 1937. His painting developed through a synthesis of many diverse elements into an individual form of 'cubist' abstraction during the 1940's, under the influence of his close friend Pablo Picasso. At that time, he declined Kahnweiler's offer to include him in his stable of figurative artists as he had found his way to Abstraction.
Caziel's work is represented in the following museums: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Vatican Museum, Rome; National Museum, Warsaw; Łodz Museum, Lodz.
Whitford Fine Art has represented the Estate of Caziel since 1995.
