Michel Suret-Canale (XX-XXI) - Hommage à Nicolas de Staël XL

De Michel Suret-Canale, Oil on canvas stretched on a keyed frame – Homage to Nicolas de Staël

This oil painting, created on canvas measuring 100 × 70 cm, is part of a pictorial exploration inspired by the memory of Nicolas de Staël, particularly by his initiation bicycle trip in Spain, a decisive moment in his relationship with color, light, and space.

The work is entirely painted in oil, with a deliberately textured surface, sometimes thick, sometimes more restrained, revealing the weave of the canvas and the successive layers of work. The warm and vibrant colors are arranged in planes and blocks that interact with each other, without explicit narration, but with a strong emotional and sensory charge.

It is not a quote nor a pastiche, but a free, conscious tribute where painting seeks to regain a physical and mental energy: to advance, build, and hold the color against the space. The surface thus becomes a place of tension between balance and rupture, density and breath.

This work demonstrates personal exploration of color and material, continuing a reflection that has been ongoing for many years on painting as both an inner experience and a visual one.

Original work, unique, signed and dated on the back, delivered with a certificate of authenticity.

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