138. The Ox Plow [1903]
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138. The Ox Plow [1903]
References
Lăzărescu, Liviu, Figuri reprezentative ale picturii românești. Partea I, Comitetul de Stat pentru Cultură și Artă, București, 1966. Brezianu, Barbu, Nicolae Grigorescu, Ed. Meridiane, Bucureşti, 1987. Vlahuță, Alexandru, Pictorul N. I. Grigorescu: Vieața și opera lui, Ed. Scrisul Românesc, Craiova, 1910.
oil on wood, 26 x 45 cm, 26 × 45 cm, signed, dated and dedicated lower right, in red, "Grigorescu, 1903, pentru M. D(anciu) /Grigorescu, 1903, for M. D(anciu)"
Research information
The artwork was part of the retrospective exhibition Nicolae Grigorescu, NAtional Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, 1984-1985 and is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue at il. 119, pag.e147, respective cat. 336, page 215 under the title "Muncă grea/Hard work". The artwork is reproduced in the catalogue Nicolae Grigorescu, Vasile Florea, Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1986 at cat. 151.
PROVENANCE
after 1907, historical collection of Maria Danciu, Nicolae Grigorescu's wife; 50's-80's, acad. Dumitru Dumitrescu's collection;
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