24. Boats at Concarneau [cca. 1929]

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24. Boats at Concarneau [cca. 1929]

Kimon Loghi

1873, Serres, Macedonia - 1952, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 3.000 - 5.000

Sold

EUR 3.000

References

OCTAVIAN, Tudor, "Pictori români uitaţi" ("Forgotten Romanian Painters"), NOI media print Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003. PAVEL, Amelia, "Idei estetice în Europa şi arta românească la răscruce de veac" ("Aesthetic ideas in Europe and Romanian art at the turn of the century"), Dacia Publishing House, Cluj, 1972.

oil on cardboard, 45 x 54 cm, 45 Ã 54 cm, signed and localised bottom right, in blue, "KIMON LOGHI, Concarneau"

Kimon Loghi was one of the artistic personalities who had an important contribution in the issue opened by Jugendstil (at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century), namely the relation between tradition and innovation, being concerned with the introduction of motifs and subjects from folk and archaic art, particularly into decorative art. He made sketches for a fairy-tale themed mural and he took decorative motifs of old Romanian monuments for his decorative schemes. Having studied painting with Theodor Aman at the Bucharest School of Fine Arts, Kimon Loghi chose to continue his studies in the German space, which was, at the time, the Secession centre and an effervescent artistic environment, not completing them in Paris, as many Romanian artists of the age chose to do. He was accepted at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, in the class of professors Franz von Stück and Arnold Böcklin, having Pericle Capidan and Ștefan Popescu as his colleagues. This was also the period when the artist mastered Symbolism, and, over the years, he became the most typical and original representative of the movement in our country. The fact that he resorted to folktale sources of inspiration reminds, as Amelia Pavel noted, of the English Pre-Raphaelite themes, of Professor Böcklin’s creations or of the great decorative compositions by Puvis de Chavannes.

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