René Cazassus (1932) - Cloturer pour...
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René Cazassus, oil on canvas titled Clôturer pour, an original 1970s landscape in red tones, signed, with frame, measuring 57 by 67 cm and weighing 1 kg, in good condition from France.
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René Cazassus (French, born 1932)
Clôturer pour… (title inscribed verso)
Oil on canvas
A compelling example of René Cazassus's distinctive post-war figurative style, Clôturer pour… presents a solitary figure tending an enclosed plot within a vast patchwork landscape rendered in luminous shades of crimson, magenta, and rose. Viewed from an elevated perspective, the composition transforms the agricultural terrain into a series of geometric planes, creating a visual dialogue between abstraction and representation.
The artist's masterful use of a restricted monochromatic palette heightens the painting's emotional intensity while emphasizing form, rhythm, and spatial structure. Dark linear fencing guides the eye through the composition and frames the lone worker, whose presence introduces a contemplative human element within the expansive landscape. The result is both symbolic and poetic, evoking themes of cultivation, isolation, labour, and man's relationship with the land.
Executed with richly textured brushwork and subtle tonal variations, the painting reflects the artist's engagement with the semi-abstract figurative movements that emerged in post-war France during the 1960s and 1970s. The work's bold colour harmonies and simplified forms demonstrate Cazassus's ability to balance expressive intensity with formal restraint.
Signed lower right "Cazassus." Titled and inscribed on the reverse.
Canvas: approximately 67 × 57 cm
Framed dimensions: approximately 67 × 57 × 4 cm
Date: Circa 1970s
NO RESERVE
René Cazassus (French, born 1932)
Clôturer pour… (title inscribed verso)
Oil on canvas
A compelling example of René Cazassus's distinctive post-war figurative style, Clôturer pour… presents a solitary figure tending an enclosed plot within a vast patchwork landscape rendered in luminous shades of crimson, magenta, and rose. Viewed from an elevated perspective, the composition transforms the agricultural terrain into a series of geometric planes, creating a visual dialogue between abstraction and representation.
The artist's masterful use of a restricted monochromatic palette heightens the painting's emotional intensity while emphasizing form, rhythm, and spatial structure. Dark linear fencing guides the eye through the composition and frames the lone worker, whose presence introduces a contemplative human element within the expansive landscape. The result is both symbolic and poetic, evoking themes of cultivation, isolation, labour, and man's relationship with the land.
Executed with richly textured brushwork and subtle tonal variations, the painting reflects the artist's engagement with the semi-abstract figurative movements that emerged in post-war France during the 1960s and 1970s. The work's bold colour harmonies and simplified forms demonstrate Cazassus's ability to balance expressive intensity with formal restraint.
Signed lower right "Cazassus." Titled and inscribed on the reverse.
Canvas: approximately 67 × 57 cm
Framed dimensions: approximately 67 × 57 × 4 cm
Date: Circa 1970s
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Artist
René Cazassus (1932)
Sold with frame
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Owner or reseller
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Cloturer pour...
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Signed
Country of origin
France
Condition
Good condition
Colour
Brown, Orange, Pink, Red, White
Height
57 cm
Width
67 cm
Weight
1 kg
Depiction/theme
Landscape
Style
Contemporary
Period
1970-1980
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