marc cavell

MARC CAVELL (1911-1989)

BIOGRAPHY

Marc Cavell, Michael Canter being his real name, was born in London en 1911. He studied painting at the Academy of the School of Arts and Crafts and exhibited for the first time in 1936 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. He came to Paris in the late 30's to complete his artistic training, enrolling at the Academy Julian and the Academy Ranson. His early works are characterized by a figuration inspired by Cézanne. He then explored the post-cubist formulas under the direction of Albert Gleizes. With Picasso, he was introduced to textiles and ceramics. The curious and eclectic artist then explored the infinite possibilities of optical and kinetic arts. In Painting and its Laws, published in 1924, Albert Gleizes wrote “Painting is animating a flat surface; animating a flat surface is giving rhythm to a space.”. Questions about movement and matter are already there. 

Between 1955 and 1966, he undertook an experience focused on light and movement. The driving force, light, is the real raw material of he operates the changing effects of light to give life to works of infinite aesthetic and emotional possibilities. Large or small sizes, Cavell's works deploy a play of shadows and light, sometimes colorful, vibrating, intersecting and intertwining on the surface of the table, thanks to the passage of light. These "light sculptures" are open compositions that induce the viewer to contemplation and even fascination.

WORK

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  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Steel and plexiglas blades on painted wood Signed and dated Unique piece H 40 x W 35.5 x D 7 cm H 15.75 x W 14 x D 2.76 inches France, 1969

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Inlayed steel blades on whited painted wood, plexiglas frame Signed Unique piece H 91 x W 93 x D 9 cm H 35.83 x W 36.61 x D 3.54 inches France, circa 1970

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled White painted kinetic box-painting Signed and dated "Cavell 69" Unique piece H 30 x W 30 x D 5 cm H 11.81 x W 11.81 x D 1.97 inches France, 1969

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled White painted wooden kinetic box-painting Signed and dated "Cavell 74" on the back Unique piece H 30 x W 30 x D 5 cm H 11.81 x W 11.81 x W 1.97 inches France, 1974

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Whited painted wooden kinetic box-painting Signed and dated on the back "Cavell 73" Unique piece H 30 x W 30 x D 5 cm H 11.81 x W 11.81 x D 1.97 inches France, 1973

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Whited painted wooden kinetic box-painting Signed and dated "Cavell 74" on the back Unique piece H 30 x W 30 x D 5 cm H 11.81 x W 11.81 x D 1.97 inches France, 1974

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled White painted wooden kinetic box-painting Signed and dated on the back "Cavell 69" Unique piece H 30 x W 30 x D 5 cm H 11.81 x W 11.81 x D 1.97 inches France, 1969

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled White painted kinetic painting-box Signed and dated Unique piece H 30 x W 30 x D 5 cm H 11.81 x W 11.81 x D 1.97 inches France, 1974

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Fakir Kinetic painting made with painted sculpted wood Unique piece H 50 x W 50 x D 7 cm H 19.69 x W 19.69 x D 2.76 inches France, 1974

  • SOLD MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled White painted wood panel with colored plexiglas blades Signed and dated on the back "Cavell 71" Unique piece H 55 x W 55 cm H 21.65 x W 21.65 inches France, 1971

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Ruban Kinetic painting made with steel blades inlayed on white lacquered wood Signed and dated on the back Unique piece H 70 x W 80 x D 11 cm H 27.56 x W 31.5 x D 4.33 inches France, 1969

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Building Kinetic painting made with red painted wood Unique piece Signed and dated on the back H 60 x W 60 x D 8 cm H 23.62 x W 23.62 x D 3.15 inches France, 1968

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Inlayed steel blades on a white painted wooden panel Signed and dated Unique piece H 104 x W 94 cm H 40.95 x W 37.01 inches France, 1973

  • SOLD MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) White Sinusoid Wavy steel blades on a painted wood panel Dated and signed on the back "Cavell 1972" H 185 x W 150 cm H 72.8 x W 59.06 inches France, 1972

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Abstract paint Gouache on paper H 43 x W 59 cm H 16.93 x W 23.23 inches Signed and dated France, 1964

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Abstract painting Gouache on paper H 25 x W 21 cm 9.84 x W 8.27 inches Signed and dated France, 1962

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Abstract painting Gouache on paper H 25 x W 33.5 cm H 9.84 x W 13 inches Signed and dated France, 1970

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Abstract painting Gouache on paper H 27 x W 18 cm H 10.63 x W 7.09 inches Signed and dated France, 1964

  • SOLD MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Abstract painting Gouache paper H 24.5 x W 21 cm H 9.45 x W 8,27 inches Signed and dated France, 1962

  • MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Abstract painting Gouache on paper H 62 x W 52 cm H 24.41 x W 20.47 inches Signed and dated France, 1967

  • SOLD MARC CAVELL (1911-1989) Untitled Kinetic painting Painted wood, plexiglas 17.13 x 17.13 inches Signed and dated on the back France, 1969