Caziel’s paintings dating 1963-1967 demonstrate an exciting development in his research into Abstraction during his last years in France, before moving to England. The year 1965 announces the departure from the dark paintings rich in texture to create the lacerated effect to paintings with a more frugal application of the paint against a white background. Caziel made a number of these white so-called lacerated paintings, which were shown at his one-man shows at the Grabowski Gallery in 1966 and in 1968. Caziel's words to his wife Catherine penned down in September 1965 describes this particular progress: 'Yesterday it seemed that I painted my canvas only to unpick it to its limits'.

With his abstract works, Caziel demonstrated that his goal was to understand experience by describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event. As such Caziel's abstract paintings are inscribed into the contemporary French philosophical debate.

Caziel's works are present in the collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Vatican Museum, Rome and the National Museum, Warsaw.

Whitford Fine Art has been representing the Estate of Caziel since 1994.