Metropolitan suite 1969
Acrylic on canvas
55 x 33 cm
Signed H69 lower right
Signed and dated on the back
Figure in the catalog raisonné of the painted work:
https://associationjeanhelion.fr/2001/11/18 /catrais0613/
Returning from his trip to Czechoslovakia and Germany, Jean Hélion begins a series on the metro. Our painting is a study made of two proposals for “Exit from the metro”. The theme of the metro can be compared to that of the sewer emerging from the ground.