This intimate composition demonstrates Pierre Célice's remarkable ability to distil abstraction to its essential elements. A restrained palette of black, white, pale yellow and vibrant pink is organised into a rhythmic interplay of geometric forms and expressive brushstrokes, creating a composition that feels both immediate and carefully resolved.

Rather than constructing rigid geometry, Célice allows each painted gesture to retain its spontaneity. The result is an image in which structure and freedom coexist, inviting the viewer to move across the surface as if reading an abstract visual score.

Célice (1932–2019) had his first success at the Galerie Simone Badinier in the 1950s before turning fully to abstraction in the early 1970s, developing a distinctive vocabulary of cut, layered coloured paper set over gestural acrylic. His paintings are held in the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the French national contemporary art fund.