125. Still Life with Roses and Books [1928]

Faithful to classical styles and focusing his creation on a narrow thematic register, the artist Gheorghe Petrașcu he creates an art of the concrete, which bursts from the reality of the daily life, from the places he visited or from the interaction with people around him. He will most often insist on the home, intimate universe where we encounter interiors, static natures, flowers, nudes, and portraits. - elements of a universe in the rendering of which the artist would find his vocation. Approached in this intimate setting, the motives, modest in their essence, are treated by the artist in serious interpretations and in chromatic brilliances, qualities that ennoble the surfaces of his canvases. An admirable master of colour, Petrașcu builds directly in colour, the matter acquiring under his brush a particular consistency and mineral effects, also revealing a strong tactile instinct. One of the favourite genres of his mature period, responding to his preference to the frozen reality will be the static nature. Varied and academic as a compositional arrangement, this genre will include in its repertoire leitmotifs close to the painting studio space - books, flowers, jugs, fruit bowls, pots, tins, jars with brushes, etc. - wrapped by the artist in a precious, sculptural colour. (GM)

References

OPRESCU, George, „Gheorghe Petrașcu”, Ed. Meridiane, București, 1963. FLOREA, Vasile, „Gheorghe Petrașcu”, Ed. Meridiane, București, 1989.

Dimensions

width 55 cm, height 46 cm, custom 46 × 55 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed and dated bottom right, with black, "G. Petrașcu, 1928"

Research information

The artwork was part of Gheorghe Petrașcu personal exhibition, Căminul Artelor Room, Bucharest, April 1-26, 1928 and is mentioned in the exhibition catalogue under cat. 97.

Dating

1928

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