Charles Lapicque (French, 1898-1988) "Landscape... Lot 57

Charles Lapicque (French, 1898-1988) "Landscape in the Sahara Atlas", 1951 Canvas signed, titled and dated on the back. Height 96 cm, width 130 cm (small damage to the canvas). Provenance: Lapicque family by descent of the artist. Exhibition: "Lapicque", Suzanne Tarasieve gallery, Barbizon, 1996. Bibliography : Bernard Balanci, "Charles Lapicque, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint et de la sculpture", Mayer editions, 1973, close work illustrated n°234. "Lapicque makes a clean sweep of the initial data of contemporary painting and reaches a form so simple and so disturbing in its simplicity that it disconcerts. His mastery of technical problems led him to isolate colored pigments and to experiment with their optical reactions. He now prepares the tones in advance and without degradation according to the photometric law. He composes, he paints by colour and finds the right value that translates and defines a plan. His colour is active, it invades the form. It will soon become the only constructive element of the painting." André Merle