Shafic Abboud (Lebanon, 1926-2004) Noire (No.92) oil on canvas, framed signed and dated 1961, affixed with the label of Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris 100 x 75cm (39 3/8 x 29 1/2in). Footnotes: Provenance: Property from a private collection, London Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris Exhibited: Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris, Circa 1961 'I only stop when both colour and light match. I cannot escape from this, it is both my fate and my nature' Shafic Abboud 'Like Renoir, Vuillard and Bonnard, Shafic Aboud is above all, an eye. He sees colour and immediately fragments it into light. His canvas is a bullfighter's outfit. It can be discombobulated and magnificently renewed according to its own logic, made up of flashes and vibrations, shivers and juddering. The result is there before us, as powerful as evidence: that window opened onto the ungraspable turmoil wherein forms refuse distinguishing characteristics in favour of the forces that inhabit them, elastic and fluid forces, nonetheless hard, like those underpinning the crucial universe.' - Salah Stetie This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com