83. Portrait of Cella Serghi

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83. Portrait of Cella Serghi

Merica Râmniceanu

1891, Bârlad - 1972, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 2.500 - 3.500

Sold post auction

EUR 2.500

oil on canvas, 110 x 73 cm, 73x110, signed lower left, in brown, "M. Râmniceanu"

Research information

Opera a participat la Salonul Oficial din 1939 și este reprodusă în catalogul expoziției la cat. 200. Opera este reprodusă în catalogul ”Doamnele artelor frumoase românești afirmate interbelic”, Ioana Cristea, Aura Popescu, Ed. Monitorul Oficial, 2004, la pag. 107. Opera este reprodusă pe coperta revistei "România literară", director Cezar Petrescu, anul I, nr. 3, 15 aprilie 1939.

One of the most important Romanian female writers of the 20th century, Cella Serghi established herself in the local literature as early as the interwar period, just after her successful debut with "Spider Web". A muse and a friend of artists such as Merica Râmniceanu or Magdalena Rădulescu, her face was depicted in an important series of portraits, out of which this one is perhaps the most significant.

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