69. Still Life with Books and Ceramic [cca. 1936]

Starting from the third decade of creation, the artist’s colour scheme emerges with remarkable force, emphasizing the materiality and the concrete nature of reality. Strengthened by density, succulence, and brilliance, it faithfully evokes the tradition of Romanian art, highlighted in the presence of motifs and in the enamel effects. One of the pervasive genres of this creation period, which meets his reference for motionless reality, was the still life. Diverse and academic in terms of its compositional arrangement, the still life included in its repertoire leitmotifs such as books, flowers, jugs, fruit bowls, pots, tins, jars with brushes, placed on tables covered in white, checked cloths, on silk scarves or on rural rugs, which the artist enveloped in a precious, sculptural colour scheme. (G.M.)

References

OPRESCU, George, „Gheorghe Petrașcu”, Ed. Meridiane, București, 1963. CONSTANTINESCU, Paula; SCHOBEL, Doina, Expoziția de pictură „G. Petrașcu 1872-1972”, Muzeul de Artă al Republicii Socialiste România, București, 1972. FLOREA, Vasile, „Gheorghe Petrașcu, Ed. Meridiane, București, 1989.

Dimensions

width 43.5 cm, height 28 cm, custom 28 × 43,5 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed upper left, with blue, "G. Petrașcu"

Research information

The artwork participated in "Gheorghe Petrașcu" exhibition, The R.S.R. Museum of Art, Bucharest, 1972, organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the painter's birth and is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue at cat. 168, under the title "Natură moartă cu cărți și strachină" ("Still life with books and bowl"). The artwork participated in "Gheorghe Petrașcu" exhibition, Museum of Art, Târgu-Mureș, 1973.

Dating

cca. 1936

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