Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024) - Belle composition Cobra à l’oiseau
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Marcus de Vestele (1941–2024) created an original 1975 aquarelle on paper titled Belle composition Cobra à l’oiseau, measuring 49 × 35 cm, Belgium, signed and dated, in good condition.
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Marcus de Vestele – Cobra Bird Composition – Watercolour on paper – 1975
Artist: Marcus de Vestele (1941–2024) – Belgium
Dimensions: 49 × 35 cm
Technique: Watercolour on paper
Presentation: Sold unframed
Signature: Signed and dated “MARCUS / 75” lower right
Condition: Good overall. Small stains visible but not serious (to note)
Provenance: Artist’s studio collection
Period: 1975
Description
Vibrant 1975 watercolour by Marcus de Vestele, deeply imbued with the Cobra spirit. On a bright, luminous yellow background, the artist unfolds a fantastical, energetic composition with expressive and spontaneous forms typical of the movement: a large fantastical bird with vivid red plumage and an intense gaze occupies the right side on a blue background, while stylised, totemic and hybrid blue‑gray and black figures rise on the left and top of the composition, evoking characters or mythical creatures.
The gesture is free, the colors vibrant and contrasts (yellow, blue, red, black), the shapes simplified and powerful. This work perfectly embodies the Cobra aesthetic: raw vitality, instinctive poetry, animal-like imagination and expressive humanity.
Biography
Marcus de Vestele (1941–2024), from Brussels, is a major figure of Belgian contemporary art. Internationally recognized for his monumental abstract marble sculptures (notably from Carrara and other stones), which have adorned many public spaces since the 1980s, he also developed a secret and intense painting practice in parallel.
His paintings, gouaches and watercolours, often inspired by the Cobra spirit and created in the 1970s, were never exhibited during his lifetime. Kept in a secret studio, nearly 200 pictorial works were discovered by his family after his death in 2024. This revelation offers a new and fascinating perspective on his creative universe, where painting and sculpture dialogue in a single expressive, colorful, gestural pursuit. His watercolours, long unseen, testify to great freshness, constant inventiveness and instinctive freedom that wonderfully complement his sculpted work.
Marcus de Vestele – Cobra Bird Composition – Watercolour on paper – 1975
Artist: Marcus de Vestele (1941–2024) – Belgium
Dimensions: 49 × 35 cm
Technique: Watercolour on paper
Presentation: Sold unframed
Signature: Signed and dated “MARCUS / 75” lower right
Condition: Good overall. Small stains visible but not serious (to note)
Provenance: Artist’s studio collection
Period: 1975
Description
Vibrant 1975 watercolour by Marcus de Vestele, deeply imbued with the Cobra spirit. On a bright, luminous yellow background, the artist unfolds a fantastical, energetic composition with expressive and spontaneous forms typical of the movement: a large fantastical bird with vivid red plumage and an intense gaze occupies the right side on a blue background, while stylised, totemic and hybrid blue‑gray and black figures rise on the left and top of the composition, evoking characters or mythical creatures.
The gesture is free, the colors vibrant and contrasts (yellow, blue, red, black), the shapes simplified and powerful. This work perfectly embodies the Cobra aesthetic: raw vitality, instinctive poetry, animal-like imagination and expressive humanity.
Biography
Marcus de Vestele (1941–2024), from Brussels, is a major figure of Belgian contemporary art. Internationally recognized for his monumental abstract marble sculptures (notably from Carrara and other stones), which have adorned many public spaces since the 1980s, he also developed a secret and intense painting practice in parallel.
His paintings, gouaches and watercolours, often inspired by the Cobra spirit and created in the 1970s, were never exhibited during his lifetime. Kept in a secret studio, nearly 200 pictorial works were discovered by his family after his death in 2024. This revelation offers a new and fascinating perspective on his creative universe, where painting and sculpture dialogue in a single expressive, colorful, gestural pursuit. His watercolours, long unseen, testify to great freshness, constant inventiveness and instinctive freedom that wonderfully complement his sculpted work.
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Artist
Marcus de Vestele (1941-2024)
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Belle composition Cobra à l’oiseau
Technique
Watercolour painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Belgium
Year
1975
Condition
Good condition
Height
35 cm
Width
49 cm
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Cobra
Period
1970-1980
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