32. Icon on glass, "The Ascension to Heaven of the Holy Prophet Elijah and scenes from his life", workshop of the Prodan family, probably painter Petru Prodan, Maieri, Alba Iulia, circa 1850-1880, comes from the collection of the world vice-champion of bridge Coriolan Neamțu, rare piece

Dimensions

width 31 cm, height 36.5 cm

Description

tempera și foiță de argint pe glajă, ramă băițuită și vopsită

PROVENANCE

Coriolan Neamțu was born in 1925, in Satu-Mare, in a family of Transylvanian intellectuals. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and the Academy of Advanced Commercial and Industrial Studies in Bucharest. His remarkable interest in bridge allowed him to overcome professional dissatisfactions, inherent to the communist regime, and devote himself passionately to bridge. He was an active promoter and organizer of the game of bridge in Romania, tournament director and bridge professor. Coriolan Neamțu wrote and edited between 1970-1983 (the year in which bridge was officially banned in Romania) the magazine "Expert Bridge", printed and distributed in hundreds of copies almost clandestinely. A journalist by profession, with column in local magazines and newspapers and numerous contributions to prestigious foreign magazines, he wrote several bridge literature works: "Competitive Bridge" (1973), "Entertaining Bridge" (1982), "Start Bridge" (1990), "Humorous Bridge" (1991) and "Bridge Conventions" (1991). Being also a great animal lover, the author published in 1979 a book titled "The Dog, Man's Friend", which enjoyed great success at the time of its release. In 2000 he published the volume of maxims and reflections "Restitutio in absurdum". He was a member of the Jockey Club Romania, the International Association of Bridge Journalists, vice world champion of bridge of the IBPA in 1992 in Salsomaggiore and editor of the bridge column in the magazine "Free Time", the weekly supplement of the newspaper "România Liberă".