Description

Student of the School of Fine Arts in Iași (1914-1916) together with Constantin Artachino and Gheorghe Popovici and of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Rome (1920-1921), the artist Adam Bălțatu made his debut in Bucharest in 1919. He would stand out through his inward painting, cultivating a spontaneity aspiring to classicist values, with landscapes, compositions, genre scenes, portraits or self-portraits. Starting with 1925, his would get concerned with the creation of a work of significance, transfiguration, in which nature acquired increasingly more interpretations and spiritualizations. (GM)

Biography

DUMITRESCU, Maria, „Adam Bălţatu”, Ed. Meridiane, Bucureşti,1970. PAVEL, Amelia, „Pictura românească interbelică”, Ed. Meridiane, Bucureşti, 1996.

Sizing

Width 45, Height 57, Sizing info 57 × 45 cm

Signature

signed and dated bottom right, with black, "Bălțatu, (1)925"

Dating

1925

Medium

oil on cardboard

Location

Artmark românia