"Effleuré".

Watercolour, 26 x 65 cm, brown paper, signed, captioned and dated in pencil at lower right corner "Calonne 1969".

Under passe-partout and frame.

Abstract composition by the Belgian artist Jacques Calonne (born 1930 in Mons). He became a member of CoBrA in 1949. In the 1950s he participated in some major exhibitions and venues of modern art and in 1957 he co-signed the "Manifesto against Style" with, amongst others, Serge Vandercam, Pierre Restany, Yves Klein, Roel d’Haese, and Pierre Alechinsky (Minne n.d.). This composition is from his abstract phase when he was inspired by calligraphic Arabic writing.