139. Self-portrait [1925]

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139. Self-portrait [1925]

Adam Bălţatu

1899, Huşi, Vaslui - 1982, Bucureşti

Not sold

Selling price

EUR 1.809

References

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

oil on cardboard, 57 x 45 cm, 57 Ã 45 cm, signed and dated bottom right, with black, "Bălțatu, (1)925"

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)

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