Picabix
See more
Charcoal Drawing Artist Marcel Melot Abstract Expressionism Abstract 1980
USD 289.34
Born in Brussels in 1909, Marcel Mélot then settled in Maubeuge in the North of France. He began his artistic exploration as a child, notably through drawing lessons and advice from older artists; however, he favors solitary and introspective work . •Until the 1980s, his work oscillated between figuration and abstraction: sketches, pastels and figurative paintings alongside more abstract painting, influenced by figures like Rouault, Nicolas de Staël and Van Rogger. •Mélot exhibits regularly in France (Maubeuge, Avignon), but also internationally - notably Stockholm and Bologna in 1986 - and receives several distinctions such as the Grand Prix de la ville d'Avignon . •His work has been described as informal abstraction, but with a strong anchoring in sublimated figuration: his works expl.
