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      • WHITFORD FINE ART
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      • Joseph Lacasse (1894-1975), Méditation (Dia no. 100), 1974 
      • Joseph Lacasse (1894-1975) Méditation (Dia no. 100), 1974
        Oil on canvas
        64 x 81 cm
        74 x 91 cm (framed)
        Price: £55,000 inc. VAT

        Lacasse Estate Inventory Number Dia no. 100 

         

        An eminent abstract painter of the École de Paris, Jospeh Lacasse was born into a destitute working-class family in Tournai, Belgium. His artistic vocation was first outlined at the local stone quarries where he worked as a young teenager. From as early as 1910, in white chalk on black paper, Lacasse studied and depicted the angles of the quarry stones and the light they refracted and reflected. In 1925, Lacasse left his native Belgium to settle Paris in the Impasse Ronsin, in a studio next to Constantin Brancusi. Lacasse had initially trained as a painter of religious scenes. However, with Brancusi as his neighbour, he was inspired to revisit his teenage interest in light and the composition of stone.

        During 1927-1928, Lacasse met Robert and Sonia Delaunay whose influence on his colour-palette would be profound. With their continued encouragement, Lacasse soon found his own unique style of abstraction. At the onset of the Second World War, Lacasse left Paris for Britain. Upon his return to Paris in 1946, after having spent the war years in Britain, Lacasse had been overshadowed by Serge Poliakoff. The latter admitted having learnt much from Lacasse during the late 1930s, when he was a frequent visitor to Lacasse’s Montparnasse gallery ‘L’ Équipe’. What characterises the work of Lacasse is the intense, continuous vibration of light communicated through colour. Lacasse’s oeuvre is indeed testimony to his search for the ultimate metaphysical light, inspired by his reading of Thomas Aquinas’ ‘Beatudes’. The works of Lacasse are included in the following museums: Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée national d’art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Musée de Tournai, Tournai, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Eilat Museum, Eilat, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

        Whitford Fine Art has represented the Lacasse Estate since 2015

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        One of London's leading international Art Galleries, Whitford Fine Art specialise in European and British 20th Century painting and sculpture, with an emphasis on Post-War Abstraction and British Pop Art.


        Founded in 1973 by Adrian Mibus and Louise Whitford, the gallery offers over forty years experience in art buying, selling and advising. The Gallery also offers valuation services, curatorial advice and assistance in collection building and display. Over forty years, Whitford Fine Art has regularly lent to museums in the UK and abroad and has presented a vast exhibition programme, covering movements from Belle Époque, to Symbolism, Cubism to Pop Art.


        Whitford Fine Art is proud to manage the estates of artists Caziel, Mildred Bendall and Joseph Lacasse, and to represent artists Clive Barker, Derek Boshier, Georges Bernède and Frank Avray Wilson.

        The Gallery is also a member of SLAD. 

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