Cesar Domela - A relief made in the 1980s of copper, metal, and paint - in original frame.

• Artist: César DOMELA (Amsterdam 1900 - Paris 1992)
• Medium: Relief of copper, metal and paint
• Dating: 1980s
• Numbered: original unique work
• Signed: back top right
• Condition: In very good condition
• Titled: untitled

He was the youngest son of politician Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis and his fourth wife, Johanna Egberta Godthelp, and lived in Hilversum from 1900 to 1918. Domela was self-taught and initially studied nature. From 1919 to 1923, he lived in Ascona, Switzerland, where he developed a constructivist-abstract style in 1922. In 1923, he moved to Berlin. In that same year, he exhibited at the November Group exhibition there. In 1925, he became a member of De Stijl and was consequently good friends with Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian. In the second half of the 1920s, he worked in a style closely related to that of Mondrian. He began to focus on the development of reliefs: three-dimensional paintings in which the diagonal would play an important role. In addition, he experimented with photomontages and applied them in advertising. From around 1930, he created striking reliefs of plexiglass and metal, but always with the oil painting as his starting point. In 1933, he settled permanently in Paris. In 1936, he participated in the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.