101. Golf at Balchik

Embracing quite a wide area of Romania - several towns in Moldavia, Dobrudja, Wallachia and Transylvania - Gheorghe Petrașcu will often concentrate on the Dobrudjan space in particular, as its dry landscape and oriental atmosphere will satisfy the vision of a painter who is eager to transpose on his canvases the beauty of the mineral world. Being attracted to this space ever since his student years, the artist will make several journeys close to the Black Sea, where he will practice outdoor painting. His motifs, elements of a terrestrial nature, would appear around nature's normal course, teaching the artist a lesson in stability and balance.

References

Oprescu George, "Gheorghe Petrașcu", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1963. Paula Constantinescu; Doina Schobel, Catalogue of the "Centenary Exhibition G. Petrașcu 1872-1972", Bucharest, 1972. Florea Vasile, "Gheorghe Petrașcu", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1989.

Dimensions

width 40 cm, height 32.5 cm, custom 32,5 × 40 cm

Description

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

Research information

The artwork participated in the "G. Petrașcu Memorial Exhibition", The R.P.R. Museum of Art, Bucharest, October – November 1957. The artwork participated in the exhibition "Representative artistic values from Bucharest collections", Romanian National Museum - Museum of Art Collections, Bucharest, 2002.

PROVENANCE

the collection of graphic artist Henri Daniel; Mihai Gavrilă Collection.

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