<Crépuscule sur le Lido>

Between 1953 and 1955, Charles Lapicque spent several periods in Venice, an Italian city that fascinated him and which he explored tirelessly. Crépuscule sur le Lido [Twilight on the Lido] is part of a series of nocturnal landscapes. In a space flooded with electric lights, a boat crosses the water, leaving the last colours of the sunset to shimmer. The street lamps direct their rays towards the viewer in the form of violet stars. This moving vision displays a chromatic exuberance typical of an artist who was passionate about the laws of optics.