Paul Kallos (1928-2001)
Composition, 1965.
Acrylic, signed and dated lower right.
61 x 38 cm.
A French non-figurative painter, Paul Kallos left his native Hungary to live in Paris where he exhibited in Pierre Loeb's gallery in the 1950s. He oscillated between figuration and abstraction, and tried his hand at chiaroscuro.
The period of this Composition (1965) marks his interest in the landscape, and the abandonment of oil for acrylic. He writes that as a child he would "draw the trees that were reflected on the edge of the ponds: it is a spectacle that touched me a lot and whose sensation has always remained with me.
