67. Traditional Interior

Ion Ţuculescu

1910, Craiova - 1962, Bucureşti

Estimate

EUR 30.000 - 50.000

Sold

EUR 55.000

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Session

Tue, 22 March 2022 19:00

Attracted by the modernity of Romanian folk art since his first creative period, artist Țuculescu will show colourist traits, enveloping images in vibrant tones. Since the 1940s his painting has undergone significant transformations. A first aspect is related to the consistency of the paste, which he substantially reduced. Another aspect is related to the topics and themes they cover, which are starting to diversify. Thus, genres such as static natures or interiors, present in his work for a relatively short time, begin to appear in his repertoire. The transformations intensify with the personal exhibition of March 1942, at the Romanian Athenaeum, in which we observe expressionist treatments, a period in which the artist renounces light for brightness, nuance for strong contrasts and harmonies of detail in favour of decorative agreements. As far as interiors are concerned, they are noticeable in his work around 1942, among the first works being "Atelierul pictorului" ("The Painter's Studio"), reminiscent of Van Gogh's "The Artist's Room at Arles", which he was to see in 1937 on the occasion of the artist's retrospective exhibition in Paris. Since 1943, the year of a new personal exhibition held at the Romanian Athenaeum, one can observe in his creation the increasingly pronounced presence of the decorative element of folk inspiration, exhibited throughout his creation through different ways of implication. The exhibition of 1943 marked a real unleashing of his chromatic palette, by the presence of intense and sonorous tones, laid down crudely, thus amplifying even more deeply the coordinates of his vision. We notice around these years interior compositions such as: "Interior țărănesc" ("Rustic interior"), "Interior cu maramă de borangic" ("Interior with raw silk head dress"), "Interior țărănesc cu macat în dungi" ("Rustic interior with striped quilt"), "Interior cu scoarțe țărănești" ("Interior with rustic rugs"), "Interior" and so on. (G.M.)

References

VLASIU, Ion, "Ion Țuculescu", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1966. DAVIDESCU, Cătălin, "Țuculescu", Scrisul Românesc Publishing House, Bucharest, 1988. Catalogue of the "Ion Țuculescu" Retrospective Exhibition, Publishing House of the National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, 1999.

Dimensions

width 61 cm, height 52.5 cm, custom 52,5 Ã 61 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed bottom left, with black, in monogram, "TUC"

PROVENANCE

the artist's family collection.

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