Mario PRASSINOS (1916-1985) COMPOSITION, 1953 (ALPILLES... Lot 27

Mario PRASSINOS (1916-1985) COMPOSITION, 1953 (ALPILLES SERIES) India ink on paper mounted on canvas signed and dated 23 June 53 lower right 50 x 65 cm Provenance Private collection, Paris "For more than thirty years, Mario Prassinos has chosen to live in Provence in the Alpilles, which emerges from the plain of Saint-Rémy as an island in the Aegean Sea. There, far from the influences of fashion, he undertook a long dialogue with this hill that he tattooed with the drawing. Slowly a path opens up, through the rocky faults and the thin shrubs. Graphic design has this noble appearance of the calligraphy but, like Hokusai's, it goes beyond the decorative and symbolic sign to become a both the essence and the witness of the act lived. » Henry Le Chénier