121. Vase with Daffodils

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121. Vase with Daffodils

Mina Byck Wepper

1899, Bârlad, Vaslui - 1964, Bucureşti

Not sold

Selling price

EUR 965

References

OCTAVIAN, Tudor, "Forgotten Romanian Painters", Noi Media Print Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003. BADEA-PĂUN, Gabriel, "Romanian painters in France", Noi Media Print Publishing House, Bucharest, 2012.

oil on cardboard, 51.5 x 33.5 cm, 51,5 Ã 33,5 cm, signed bottom left, in brown, "Mina Byck Wepper"

With roots in the family of linguist Jacques Byck, Mina Byck-Wepper would affirm herself as one of the most prolific female figures of Romanian interwar art. She studies at Fine Arts School in Bucharest under the guidance of another prolific figure of local painting: Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck, from whom she will take the appetite for symbolism. Wepper will be, without a doubt, one of the best students. She will also enjoy the guidance of Ipolit Strâmbu, who used to take over the classes dedicated to female students at the school in Bucharest. The symbolism and decorativism proposed by Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck in the country were to be deepened at the Royal Academy of Art in the Bavarian capital under the guidance of Professor Franz von Stuck. The moment of encounter with German art will coincide, in Mina Byck-Wepper's creative economy, with the discovery of interest in her floral panels. In 1912, she opens her first personal exhibition in Bucharest, the artist managed to organise, during her career, no fewer than eight such events that have attracted both public and critical attention. Byck-Wepper will become, thus, one of the most favourite artists of the collectors at the time. Although she studied under the auspices of the various currents proposed by her masters, the artist will rather assume a native modernism and a traditional-realist nature. She becomes an active presence in the Artistic Youth or the Official Salon, and in 1937 she also took part in the International Exhibition in Paris. The drawing executed directly from nature and the colour added in perfect harmony with the observation of reality will establish Mina Byck as one of the leading figures of the inter-war artistic life of the country. Daffodils, zinnias, chrysanthemums or roses will often appear in her work and reveal the artist's preference for shades of white, yellow, red or pink. The chromatic choices dedicated to flowers will be in contrast with those reserved for the porcelain vases. Still lives will therefore take on the rank of pictorial-photographic representations of the artist's private life, by entering her familiar universe and describing corners of her home.

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