Faces fractured through the raw energy of northern European angst.
These two panels teeter on the edge of figuration, their surfaces dissolving under scraped pigment, gouged lines, and bruised ochre tones. The artist's process is not one of depiction but excavation: sgraffito marks cut through the skin of the paint while a palette knife scores verticals like broken windows. This is painting as ritualized destruction, a method that aligns closely with the material expressiveness of the CoBrA Group, who answered Abstract Expressionism with a darker, dirtier approach.
Medium: Oil on board
Inscription on Verso: Label reading "HANOT, Michiel Maria Felix, Voorlopige Bewindstraat 46, 1000 Brussel Twee Belgen".
Condition: Framed as a diptych. Minor edge wear and flaking visible near corners.
