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Charcoal Drawing Marcel Melot Abstraction Expressionism Abstract 1980 Art
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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.
