3. La Ville [1981]

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3. La Ville [1981]

Horia Damian

1922, Bucureşti - 2012, Paris

Estimate:

EUR 1.500 - 2.500

Sold

EUR 2.500

References

VARIA, Radu, "Horia Damian - Opere din muzeele și colecțiile românești 1930-1946" ("Horia Damian - Works from Romanian museums and collections 1930-1946"), Monitorul Oficial Publishing House, 2009.

pencil and gouache on cardboard, 38 x 53 cm, 38 Ã 53 cm, signed, entitled and dated, bottom left, with pencil, "Damian, La Ville, 1981"

He discovers his artistic abilities since childhood. At first, he depicts family scenery and tackles light themes. He continues to evolve, until he begins to illustrate the great universal painters: Rembrandt, Delacroix, Velasquez. His works would go on to be included in the collections of Zambaccian, Simu or Stelian. In 1946, he receives a scholarship which he would use to travel to France. There, he would draw inspiration from modern art and cubism, picking up aspects from Mondrian’s geometry. "La Ville" is a work brimming with poetic geometry. The artist experiments with lines, shapes and colours. He uses multiple perspectives and a monochromatic palette, where his playfulness with lights and shadows is quite evident. Horia Damian creates art as a refuge and fully takes on the responsibility of expressing seemingly objective things by using his own subjective filter.

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