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Raoul Ubac
Belgian Painter/Sculptor/Printmaker
(1910 - 1985)

Raoul Ubac was an early acolyte of the Cobra group, a Scandinavian offshoot of the surrealist movement. The primary focus of the group consisted of semi-abstract paintings with brilliant color, violent brushwork and distorted human figures inspired by primitive and folk art.

Ubac’s almost religious commitment to this aesthetic took shape as a determined, slow devolution throughout his long career, ultimately leading to the pure, essential yet almost naive style of his masterworks.

Meditative, the artist said in an interview: "I would wish a state of innocence which would reflect through the work the magnificence of the world."

Offset lithograph printed by ARTE, Paris.

23.25" x 17.5"

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