162. Fair at Rucăr

1838, Pitaru, Dâmboviţa - 1907, Câmpina

Estimate

EUR 20.000 - 35.000

Sold

EUR 27.000

Session

Thu, 28 February 2019 20:30

References

CIOFLEC, Virgil, "Grigorescu", Bucureşti, Ed. Cultura Naţională, 1925
OPRESCU, George, [Remus Niculescu], "N. Grigorescu", Bucureşti, ed.Meridiane, 1961-1962, vol.I-II
VLAHUȚĂ, Alexandru, "Pictorul N.I.Grigorescu. Vieaţa şi opera lui", ediţia Casei Şcoalelor, Bucureşti, Socec, 1910
VLASIU, Ioana, coordonator, volum colectiv, "Nicolae Grigorescu şi modernitatea", Institutul de Istoria Artei "G.Oprescu" al Academiei Române, Bucureşti, ed. Domino, 2008

Dimensions

width 39.5 cm, height 13 cm, custom 39,5x13

Description

oil on canvas laid on wood, signed lower left side, in red, "Grigorescu"

Research information

The work is reproduced in Calendarul Minervei/ Minerva's Calendar, 1909.

PROVENANCE

the historical collection of dr. Alexandru Obregia, psychiatrist and professor. Dr. Obregia's career is related to the development of psychiatry - he is the champion of building the first Neuropsychiatry Hospital in Romania in Bucharest, 1923. Dr. Obregia not only collected Grigorescu's works, he was also the latter's personal doctor during the painter's last years, as shown by the correspondence between the two (George Oprescu, “Corespondența lui N. Grigorescu”/“The letters of N. Grigorescu”, Universul, 1944)

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