Note the charcoal is fixed on the paper

Born in Brussels in 1909, Marcel Mélot then settled in Maubeuge in the North of FranceFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer. He began his artistic exploration as a child, notably through drawing lessons and advice from older artists; however, he favors solitary and introspective work For buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•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 For buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•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 For buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•His work has been described as informal abstraction, but with a strong anchoring in sublimated figuration: his works explore the inner states of the self and the soul, with a marked use of black as a sign of reflection, punctuated with luminous touches (yellow, ocher) evoking hope For buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

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✏️ Description of the work (charcoal on paper, circa 1980s — approximately 65×50 cm)

Support & Dimensions

•Charcoal on paper, approximate size 65 × 50 cm, signed lower right — typical of a work on medium-sized paper by Mélot in the 1980sFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

Composition & Colors

•Dark background (dark brown black), typical of Mélot's introspective works, creating a meditative atmosphereFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•Dynamic gestural traces in white, gray, and possibly red or yellow, deploying fluid writing, in spirals or arabesquesFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•Colorful elements punctuate the dominant black, creating contrast and vibrationFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

Style & Sense

•Formal pupils: movement, rhythmic tension without explicit figurative representationFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•The work is reminiscent of expressive informal abstraction, where the gesture is almost choreographicFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•The absence of recognizable forms encourages an emotional reading — quest for meaning, psychological depth, confrontation of darkness and light, a constant theme in Mélot For buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

Signature & Period

•The signature at the bottom right corresponds to his usual practices at the end of his life: sober, discreet, focused on the gesture and the material rather than on the display of identityFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•The 1980s correspond to his period of intense abstraction (“mops”, “grids”, broken heads, etc.) described in his biography For buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

🎨 Additional analysis

•The work can be read as a visual metaphor for human interiority: the interlocking lines evoke an internal tension, a questioning or an emotional flowFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•The interior frame constraint (structured edge) could suggest a desire to contain this flow of energy, characteristic of Mélot's approachFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.

•Charcoal, used without too much fixative, expresses a living fragility: each line seems uncertain, ready to disappear - an ephemeral dimension which accords with the expression of the soul in mutationFor buyers in the United States: The item price and shipping fee include any applicable import duties. You will not be required to pay any additional custom charges. Please purchase with confidence. For buyers outside the United States: The item price and shipping fee do not include import taxes, duties, or customs fees. Any charges incurred outside the European Union are the responsibility of the buyer.