The present work is a splendid example of Lacasse’s so-called ‘Balancement’ paintings with which he so genius-like responded to the popularity which Serge Poliakoff gained during Lacasse’s six-year absence from Paris during the war years spent in England. Lacasse was disillusioned that everybody seemed to have forgotten his abstract works from the 1930’s which had initially inspired Poliakoff. Sonia Delaunay was one of the few who was disdained by Lacasse’s treatment of art history and wrote several times about Poliakoff’s debt to Lacasse.

When upon his return to Paris in 1946 Lacasse saw Poliakoff’s paintings, he responded with the mystical balancing of forms, executed in lyrical impressionist brushwork. A joy to the eye and senses, the present work juxtaposes purist forms and soft touch.