87. Lane in Mangalia

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87. Lane in Mangalia

Nicolae Tonitza

1886, Bârlad - 1940, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 12.000 - 18.000

Sold

EUR 14.000

References

BREZIANU, Barbu, "N.N.Tonitza", Ed. Meridiane, București, 1967
CIUCĂ, Valentin, "Pe urmele lui Tonitza", Ed. Sport-Turism, București, 1984
COMARNESCU, Petru, "N.N.Tonitza", Ed. Tineretului, București, 1962

oil on cardboard, 50 x 40 cm, 40x50, signed lower right "Tonitza", in black

PROVENANCE

the historic collection of the philosopher Lucian Blaga.

Dobruja exerted the same fascination over him as over most artists of his time. He always returned there, feeling that place was connected to a clarification of his artistic concepts and to a coagulation of an original style of painting. Not just in Balchik, but in Mangalia and other towns in Dobruja, as well, Tonitza made contact with the Turkish and Tatar populations, people among whom he felt good, with whom he had long talks and whose children were very dear to him. Some of them Tonitza taught how to draw, even organising a drawing contest and making a drawn alphabet for them. The first contact with this world occurred during the time he was a prisoner, when he was inspired to write Oriental stories in the camp's magazine. Mangalia, a town with ancient roots, as well as an important urban development, was one of the preferred destinations of Nicolae Tonitza, along with Balchik. In 1925 - the year of important work campaigns, when he visited Mangalia, Țara Făgărașului and Techirghiol - he reached the shores of the Black Sea, where he returned year after year, until 1933, when he discovered Balchik. The first "studies" of Mangalia were in 1925, when we discover a Tonitza split between Impressionist painting - at the exhibition of the "Group of Moldavians from Bucharest" in November-December 1925 he showed two "Impressions of Mangalia", at cat. 52-53 - and studying, in a sensorial-emotional key, the human and architectural picturesque. Thus, the town comes to life in works like "Mangalia-Study" (see the catalogue "Nicolae Tonitza Exhibition", Georgeta Peleanu, National Art Museum of the Romanian People's Republic, Bucharest, 1964, under cat. 84, in fact it is Comino Inn, which appears often in the works of Tonitza and Ștefan Dimitrescu), "Study of Mangalia" (idem, cat. 85), "In Mangalia - Study" (idem, cat. 88) or "Minaret" (idem, cat. 98).

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