MICHEL MACRÉAU (France, 1935-1995) UNTITLED, 1988 Acrylic on Isorel Signed lower right Acrylic on masonite; signed lower right 175 X 138 CM - 68 7/8 X 54 3/8 IN. We would like to thank the Comité Michel Macréau for authenticating this work, which will be included in the artist's catalogue raisonné currently in preparation. A certificate can be obtained at the buyer's expense. PROVENANCE Galerie Jacques Barbier-Caroline Beltz, Paris. Acquired from the latter by the current owner. EXHIBITION Probably: Paris, FIAC, Grand Palais, Galerie Jacques Barbier Caroline Beltz, 7-15 October 1989 (label on back). "Profoundly symbolic, Macréau's work throughout his career privileges the human figure. This figure, often central to the composition, in the form of the face or the representation of the human body, male or female, functions as an internal frame, or to be more precise, a matrix. In other words, an envelope, a regulating contour, a film, a border, on which Macréau elaborates and figures the central question and experimentation of all his work around the duality of inside-outside, outside and inside. In a way, we can say that this work stands on a thread or a line, that of the indicative delineation of the subject, but only if we observe that this line represents a wall, a screen on which is inscribed an infinite history of exchanges, identifications, extensions, displacements and reversals that give the painting the intensity of a preconscious wandering. " Bernard Lamarche-Vadel in. Macréau: 30 ans de peinture, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Jacques Martineau, published by Galerie Jacques Barbier-Caroline Beltz La Différence, Paris: 1989, p. 10.