44. Boats in Balchik

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44. Boats in Balchik

Cecilia Cuţescu Storck

1879, Câineni, Vâlcea - 1969, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 3.500 - 5.500

Sold

EUR 3.500

oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm, 60x50, signed lower right, in red, "C. Cuţescu Storck"

Having the "diary" published in 1944, "A Life’s Fresco", as a source, we can understand the thoughts that have been the essential moments in conceiving and shaping an art that to this day appears more than original. Searching for "the new art", as we have discovered it since her first exhibitions, abroad or in the country, at the Artistic Youth, Cecilia Cuţescu constantly sought to organise her painting starting from the innovative character of her pictorial tools. The line, the duct and its cursiveness have been elaborated in such a way that the painting is renewed, having, of course, an existing reference point, the local art through its "traditional", dated valences. Probably the most suitable place that Romanian art has known for chromatic experiments, as regards the landscape, was Balchik, which Cecilia Cuţescu-Storck did not avoid, but even more so, she loved beyond words, probably as much as Queen Marie. Besides the fact that in Balchik the Storck family became one of the residents, buying land and building an exceptional palace, Cecilia and Fritz actually worked there, having their own studios. We know Cecilia’s from the oil paintings that show the studio, but the photos of the Storck spouses’ house at that time reveal a building decorated both with mural paintings and sculptures. Balchik is discovered by the painter at the beginning of the third decade, when she reached the coastal town in 1921, and by selling the paintings she made then, she managed to purchase a piece of land near the future Royal Palace. (I.P.)

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