Cubic Nude – Marcel Caron

Marcel Caron (Enghien-les-Bains 1890 – Liège 1961)

Cubic Nude, oil on fiberboard (Unalit or Isorel), signed with the artist’s initials and dated 1950.

Presented in a new floater frame, the work rests on a linen and cotton blend marouflaged background.

Dimensions

• • Frame: 68 cm x 78 cm
  • Work: 55 cm x 65 cm

Marcel Caron and Belgian Modernity

Born in Enghien-les-Bains in 1890 and deceased in Liège in 1961, Marcel Caron is among the major artists of 20th-century Belgian modernity. Trained at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Liège, he evolved successively from Impressionism to Expressionism, before integrating the contributions of Cubism and then abstraction.

A founding member of the group L’Escalier alongside Auguste Mambour and Edgar Scauflaire in 1926, he actively participated in the renewal of the Liège art scene. His work bears witness to a constant search for the simplification of forms, geometric construction, and the balance of volumes.

Dated 1950, this work belongs to Marcel Caron’s period of maturity. The geometrization of the nude, the simplification of volumes, and the balance of the composition perfectly illustrate the synthesis he achieves between Cubism, Expressionism, and decorative sensibility.