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76F. Bouquet of roses [1863-1869]

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76F. Bouquet of roses [1863-1869]

1838, Pitaru, Dâmboviţa - 1907, Câmpina

Estimate:
EUR 40.000 - 70.000

References

Ioana Beldiman, Gheorghe Cosma, Nicolae Grigorescu, painting-graphics, [exhibition catalog], Museum of Art of the RSR, Bucharest, 1984-1985 Remus Niculescu, Nicolae Grigorescu Exhibition, catalog, Museum of Art of the RPR, Bucharest, 1957 Acad. G. Oprescu [-R. Niculescu], N. Grigorescu, vol. 1, Meridiane Publishing, Bucharest, 1961 Francisc Şirato, Grigoresco, Editions de la Connaissance S.A., Brussels, 1938 A. Vlahuţă, The Painter N. I. Grigorescu. His Life and Work, edition of the House of Schools, Socec, Bucharest, 1910 K. H. Zambaccian, Grigorescu, Ed. Cartea Românească, Bucharest [1945]

oil on canvas, 30 x 51 cm, signed bottom right, with brown, "Grigorescu"

Research information

The artwork is classified in the category of the National Cultural Mobile Heritage Fund, by order of the Minister of Culture, no. 2393, dated June 14, 2017.

Just gathered from a garden, perhaps at Barbizon or Marlotte, with delicate petals radiating with color, the roses “thrown” on the table before being arranged in a vase, provide Grigorescu with the creative impulse he often feels in front of the pictorial spectacle of Nature. The viewer, in turn, perceives the artist’s emotion, thus reconstructing the process of creating the work. Belonging specifically to the Barbizon period (1863-1869), the arsenal of expressive means employed by Grigorescu introduces at least two key elements into the composition: the dramatic chiaroscuro contrast between the illuminated areas (central, lower) and the darker upper part, as well as the chromatic strength and the suggestion of freshness of the flowers. The red, white, and pink roses placed in the center of the image are the source of color-light in this spectacle, radiating across the entire work a wave of emotion. In the still lifes painted by the artist after 1863, this type of plastic vocabulary is a principle of image construction. The painter’s exercise often begins from the same point: the richness of chromatic, tactile, and olfactory suggestions offered by the same pictorial motif, the roses. In each

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Tue, 20 October 2026, 19:00

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