6. Returning from the Field

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6. Returning from the Field

Elena Popea

1879, Braşov - 1941, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 1.500 - 2.500

Sold post auction

EUR 1.500

References

Aurelia Mocanu, Bucharest - Materiale de Istorie și Muzeografie (History and Museography Materials) 1992

oil on cardboard, 46 x 46 cm, 46 Ã 46 cm, signed bottom right, with pencil, "Elena Popea"

Research information

The artwork participated in the retrospective exhibition, "Elena Popea", Art Museum, Cluj, 1971.

PROVENANCE

Octavian Goga collection

The artist studied in Munich and exhibited in Paris, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, The Hague. Generally, she spent her summers painting around Brașov or Cluj, and travelling throughout the rest of the year. As she wandered all the way to Scandinavia, Scotland, Spain and the Middle East, from each trip resulted a new series of paintings. The traditional atmosphere and the roughness of the Breton lands bring monumentality to the artist's pictorial vision, and, as a stylistic register, a closeness to Expressionism. The narrow, cold and dark chromatic reminds of Charles Cottet's painting. The Transylvanian atmosphere, the iridescent light and the collected chromatic matter offer a distant vision, typical for the sketch, leading to the dematerialisation of the motif. (E.C.)

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