Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Paris

ABOUT THE WORK

Macario Vitalis is an artist defined by the evolution and spontaneity of his art. Having studied in Europe and later finding home in Brittany sometime in 1957, Vitalis’ predilections were inevitably predisposed by European Post-Impressionist masters. The dynamic color palette, among the notable things in Vitalis’ stylistic evolution, has set his works apart from that of his contemporaries. Thus, his works often utilized the relationship between the core essentials of the aesthetic form, which is to say color, shape, and form. In this piece entitled Parisian Market, we see Vitalis at the cusp of evolving to his signature Pointillism style that defined his latter career. Here, he manages to capture the vivacity and liveliness of the scene with only the essentials; a feat attributed to Macario Vitalis’ innate artistic sensibilities. Vitalis had the opportunity to exhibit along with Nena Saguil and Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi were at the Six Artistes Contemporains Philippins en Europe at the Academie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris. He was honored with the medal of excellence from the Institut Academique de Paris and was chosen as the subject of a retrospective at the CCP Main Gallery in 1986, where works from as far back as 1936 were shown.