CAZIEL: ABSTRACTION EXPLORED. Works form the Fifties by Whitford Fine Art

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ABSTRACTION EXPLORED Works from the Fifties

5 May – 2 June 2017

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CAZIEL: ABSTRACTION EXPLORED WORKS FROM THE FIFTIES

This exhibition brings together some of the most important and inspiring works from Caziel's early abstract period, from a time when he was at the centre of the Post-War Parisian art scene. It includes his first abstract paintings, which combine a Cubistinfluenced aesthetic and geometric decomposition, alongside his mature abstract style in which lyricism and geometrical abstraction merge. With these works Caziel believed that, as possibly Picasso and Braque did when they invented Cubism, he was reaching for a higher order of reality, a new perspective, which hinted at the spiritual. In search of a new dimension, his art transcends the natural stimulus of figuration, bringing to life an unseen world punctuated by nuances in colour, texture and form, yet always humanistic in intention.

A highly personal expression of his epicurean belief that painting should bring joy, Caziel's work of the 1950s figures within the upbeat current which defined Paris' cultural identity in the aftermath of the Second World War. These works represent the start of Caziel's journey into abstraction, a route which he would follow with inexhaustible passion for the rest of his life.

Abstract Composition c. 1952 Gouache on paper 46 x 33.5 cm Signed lower right Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC792 ÂŁ 8,000

Composition no.30 1948 Oil on canvas 56 x 62 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC040 ÂŁ 16,000

Architectonic Composition c.1952 Oil on canvas 108 x 133 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC136 ÂŁ 36,000

Composition "Cobra" c.1948 Oil on canvas 30.5 x 51 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC204 ÂŁ 10,000

Composition with Organic Forms c.1950 Oil on canvas 62 x 122 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC141 ÂŁ 34,000

Composition #35 c.1950 Oil on canvas 48 x 63 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC210 ÂŁ 12,000

Composition no.21 c.1950 Oil on artist's board 26 x 31 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC219 ÂŁ 7,500

Composition #27 c.1950 Gouache 32 x 48 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC228 ÂŁ 6,500

Composition #25 c.1951 Oil on board 26.5 x 34.5 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC230 ÂŁ 10,000

10. Abstract Composition c.1952 Oil on canvas 50 x 67 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC246 ÂŁ 16,000

11. Composition #47 c.1950 Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC240 ÂŁ 14,000

12. Espace 1953 Oil on canvas 75 x 49 cm Signed and dated ''53.6'' verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC 348 ÂŁ 14,000

13. Abstract Composition c.1949 Oil on canvas 45.5 x 38 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC337 ÂŁ 16,000

14. Lyrical Forms c.1949 Oil on canvas 48.5 x 48.5 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC388 Â£ 12,000

15. Composition 08.1966 1966 Oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm Signed and dated verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC464 ÂŁ 28,000

16. Composition c.1951 Charcoal and gouache 41 x 61 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC589 ÂŁ 6,500

17. Composition c.1950 Gouache 32.5 x 62.5 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC593 ÂŁ 8,000

18. Composition 11.52 1952 Gouache on paper 65 x 50.5 cm Signed and dated upper right Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC599 ÂŁ 8,000

19. Recherche 1951 Gouache and wax crayon 48.5 x 62.5 cm Signed and dated ''51.IX'' upper left Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC628 Â£ 7,500

20. Recherche 1951 Gouache and wax crayon 48 x 62.5 cm Signed and dated ''51.IX'' upper left Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC633 Â£ 7,500

21. Recherche 1951 Gouache and wax crayon 63 x 48 cm Signed and dated ''51.IX'' upper right Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC634 ÂŁ 7,500

22. Abstract Composition 1965 Oil on canvas 130 x 114 cm Signed and dated ''65.VII'' verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC661 ÂŁ 38,000

23. Composition c.1950 Charcoal 19 x 35.5 cm Signed with studio stamp lower left Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC706 ÂŁ 3,500

24. Composition c.1950 Charcoal 27 x 34.5 cm Signed with studio stamp lower right Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC705 ÂŁ 3,800

25. Composition 1950 Charcoal on paper 31 x 48 cm Signed and dated ''5.50'' lower left Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC754 ÂŁ 4,500

26. Composition 1951 Oil on canvas 40 x 79 cm Signed and dated lower right Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC320 ÂŁ 16,000

27. Composition c.1967 Oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no. WC535 ÂŁ 28,000

28. Composition c.1951 Oil on panel 41 x 37 cm Signed with studio stamp verso Caziel Estate Inventory no.WC677 ÂŁ 12,000

CHRONOLOGY and EXHIBITIONS 1906 1914-20 1931-36 1932-37 1937 1939 1940 1941 1944-46 1946

1947 1948-56 1951 1952 1953 1957 1958 1963 1966 1968 1966-68 1969 1978 1983 1988 1990 1991 1992 1995 1997 1998 2001 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

Born in Sosnowiec, Poland, on 16th June. Spent his childhood and youth moving around Russia, as his family escaped from the advancing German forces and subsequently had to hide from the Communists. Studied painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. Met Jewish painter Lutka Pink. Exhibited at Loza Wolnomalarska (Lodge of Free Painters). Won a State Scholarship to Italy and Paris. Settled with Lutka Pink in Paris. Married Lutka Pink. Volunteered for the Polish Army in France. After France signed the Armistice with Germany, the Polish army was disbanded and all Polish soldiers were advised to make their way to the South of France or Spain. Caziel and Lutka were sheltered by Blaise Cendrars in Aix-en-Provence before being moved by the French Resitance to Auvergne. Caziel and Lutka moved back to Aix-en-Provence. Caziel and Lutka moved back to Paris. Despite being promised important teaching posts as well as state sponsorship for his work by the Polish authorities, Caziel chose to stay in Paris, to protect Lutka from the shock of having to return to the country where she lost all her relatives in Auschwitz. Designed the Polish Pavilion for UNESCO International Exhibition of Modern Art. First one-man show at Galerie Allard, Paris. Met Picasso with whom he developed a long friendship. Exhibited annually at the “Salon de Mai” in Paris. The Musée National d’Art Moderne purchased one of his monumental canvasses. Fell in love with the Scottish painter Catherine Sinclair. Together they moved to Ponthévrard, just outside Paris. The Vatican commissioned four large paintings for their Museum of Modern Religious Art. Designed frescoes for French architect Jean Ginsberg. Married Catherine Sinclair. Catherine and Caziel’s daughter Clementina was born. Exterior design for a fresco for the Atomic Energy Commission at Tollemache House, Thurso. First one-man show in London hosted by the Grabowski Gallery. Second one-man show at the Grabowski Gallery, London. Exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Moved his family from Ponthévrard to Somerset, England. Exhibited at the National Museum, Warsaw – Circle of Tadeusz Pruszkowski. Exhibited works on paper at the Summer Exhibition at Fair Maids House Gallery, Perth. Died in Somerset. Memorial Exhibition at the Polish Cultural Institute, London. Exhibition at the Butlin Gallery, Dillington House College, Ilminster, Somerset. Exhibition of works from 1945 – 1988 at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. Exhibition Caziel: Substance and Light, Whitford Fine Art, London. Exhibition Caziel: Drawings from the Forties, Whitford Fine Art, London. Exhibition Caziel: Works from the Fifties, Whitford Fine Art, London. Retrospective Exhibition at the National Museum, Warsaw. Exhibition Contour and Line: Selection of Works on Paper from 1965, Whitford Fine Art, London. Exhibition Caziel: Abstraction 1963 – 1967, Whitford Fine Art, London. Retrospective Exhibition at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, London. Centenary Retrospective Exhibition, Whitford Fine Art, London. Exhibition Caziel: ‘Je suis abstrait’ - Works from the Fifties, Whitford Fine Art, London. Exhibition Caziel: Drawings and Watercolours 1935 – 1952, Whitford Fine Art, London. Exhibition Caziel: In Search of a New Reality, Whitford Fine Art, London. Exhibition Caziel: Forever Yours, Whitford Fine Art, London.