Fr.-Charles Bazelaire (XX - Dyptique

Original canvas – Signed & dated
Two-panel work that is preferably sold together but can be sold separately
Discover a powerful and dynamic work by the contemporary artist Francois Charles Bazelaire, known for his explosive colors, expressive brushstrokes and energetic abstract compositions.
Francois Charles Bazelaire died in 2021

Bazelaire had always been an avid collector and was immersed in the world of art from a young age. It was at the crossroads of the 1990s and 2000s that he picked up his brushes, tackled the white canvas, and resolutely dedicated himself to painting. Bazelaire was a regular visitor to the Royal Academy of Watermaal-Bosvoorde, where he painted large nudes on live models, as well as to the Royal Academy of Ixelles for sculpture and the Royal Academy of Saint-Gilles for sculpture. Bazelaire has since become an established painter and has been developing his non-figurative work since 2005, notably in his studio in Vorst (1190 Brussels).
Like a number of his contemporaries in Belgium and France, Bazelaire identifies more specifically with the movement associated with lyrical abstraction. He stands close to the Tachists at the beginning of his career and the Abstract Expressionists in the second half of the 20th century. His influences are Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Johan Mitchell and Sam Francis, whose choice of colors and gestures give him great freedom, but also the Belgian artists Englebert van Anderlecht, Louis Van Lint, Antoine Mortier and Maurice Wyckaert, the French artists Nicolas de Staël, Olivier Debré and Gérard Schneider, and contemporary artists such as Michèle Desterac and Thibaut de Reimpré, to name just a few.