[ON HOLD] Very large artwork by Maurice Haccuria (1919-1991)
’Nagasaki’, 1969

165 x 120 cm.

The piece is in very poor condition with several damages. Frame is slightly deformed.

Maurice Haccuria was a self-taught Belgian painter, sculptor, graphic artist. In 1943, he painted animistic landscapes. He incorporated expressionism and cubism, and around 1960, he moved towards a lyrical abstraction closely related to action painting and Cobra aesthetics. He also worked monochromatically for a period, but from the late 1960s, his palette became more colorful again. From the press: "The work of Maurice Haccuria is on the one hand analytical, unraveling, reducing nature to a few elementary graphic elements, and on the other hand, intuitive, probing the meaning of life and nature, of humanity and its way of existence."
Source: The Belgian artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, Paul Piron, via Museum Aarchot https://www.museum-aarschot.be/maurice-haccuria/