Untitled (Profile with Forms), c. 1957
Mixed media with lithograph and collage
30 x 22 inches
No. 3 from an edition of 50
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The Artist's Estate; by descent
Note: Papart's mature painting emerged across the 1950s. Drawing on the Cubist tradition that had reshaped European painting in the early twentieth century, he developed an idiom in which the figure was fragmented and abstracted across overlapping planes of saturated colour, with subjects handled with humour and warmth. The painting is recognizably Cubist in structure but Mediterranean in feeling, and that combination became the basis of the work he is most remembered for.