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In 1983, after a fifteen-year hiatus, Parmentier resumed painting: “In short, I definitively ceased painting. Which means very exactly that I can commit another offense [récidiver] when I want, and without having to account for it.” (1) He now made canvases with horizontal black and white bands [which he exhibits in 1984 at the Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert (2)]. Whereas in 1966, 1967, and 1968 each year brought a change of color, this time the black was maintained for two years in succession. (3)

Having created just over 70 paintings throughout his career, Michel Parmentier …