León Gallery wishes to thank La Comité Vitalis for confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Paris

ABOUT THE WORK

Having studied in Europe, Ilocos-born Macario Vitalis’ color sensibility was influenced by the French Post-Impressionist movement. Bursting colors mark his landscape, seascape, and figurative works, a feature that sets his pieces apart from those of his contemporaries. His artistic journey is a colorful one. He left the country to study art in San Francisco in 1917, left for England in 1925, then headed to the artists’ enclave of Montmartre the following year. Before settling in Plestin-Les Greves in Brittany, Vitalis also lived in Puteaux. These ventures on different places and settlement in Brittany, also the European post-impressionist masters who impacted his art, led to his interesting stylistic development that shows shifts (or combinations) of impressionist, cubist, and pointillist techniques. This engaging work displays Vitalis’ subjects in angled appearances—a Cubist 1963 piece that also shows his signature prismatic colors. Here, he combined cubist and impressionist styles as he rendered loose mosaic-like shapes that comprise the seamstresses.