Lucebert (1924 - †1994-05-10)

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DESCRIPTION: signed and dated '64; signed, titled and dated 64/18 on the reverse. oil on canvas. PROVENANCE: Marlborough Fine Art, London. Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York. CATALOGUE NOTE: Around 1960 Lucebert embarked on a period of heigthened activity. He started to paint a growing number of canvases. These works from the first half of the sixties still belong to his best works in is oeuvre.) Macbeth with witches dates from this period. This painting bears the characteristics of his early works and is a portent of the grand oeuvre still to come. It is all there: graphic, imaginative, poetic, the fantastical, deformed figuration and Lucebert’s so typical use of colour, alternately vivid and muted. In Macbeth with witches the style of Lucebert hovers between extremes: sometimes apparently governed by chance in a barely controlled chaos, the form at other times being precisely determined and defined. ‘Whithout predomination and with a minimum of means, he achieves a maximum of spontaneity and expression’. (exhibition catalogue, Lucebert in het Stedelijk Museum, 1987, pp. 18,19) In content the innocent mythical creatures become more and more a banter on the human world in this period, as visible in the present lot. His profound anxious and pessimistic view of man and society, of the terror of power, of violence and the injustice that appears to rule the world starts to occur in his paintings. Emotions which we will recognize in many of his later works.