130. The Entrance of the Viforâta Monastery [mijlocul anilor '20]

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130. The Entrance of the Viforâta Monastery [mijlocul anilor '20]

Gheorghe Petraşcu

1872, Tecuci, Galați - 1949, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 8.000 - 15.000

Sold

EUR 16.500

References

CONSTANTINESCU, Paula, SCHOBEL, Doina, "Expoziție de pictură Gheorghe Petrașcu" ("Gheorghe Petrașcu painting exhibition"), The R.S.R. Art Museum, Bucharest, 1972 COSTESCU, Eleonora, "Gheorghe Petrașcu", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1975

oil on cardboard, 25.5 x 36 cm, 25,5 Ã 36 cm, signed upper left, with black, "G. Petrașcu"

PROVENANCE

the historical collection of Prof. Dimitrie P. Mazilu (?-1964), professor, lawyer and collaborator of Prof. Simion MehedinÈi. The artwork was a gift from Simion MehedinÈi to his colleague D. Mazilu, the two collaborating on the editorial staff of newspaper "Munca", in the Royal Society of Geography and in the chancellery of the Bucharest War College.

After 1922, the year in which he built a house-workshop in Târgoviște, Gheorghe Petrașcu returned constantly to the old town in the mountains. His own house, but especially the monastery complex and the manor court with its ruins will be motifs often approached by a painter in constant search of an imposing figurative. Constantly attracted by these architectural and historical "permanencies", Petrașcu constantly returns and creates an exceptional cycle around the monastery, both by painting the bell tower, recalling either architectural studies (see the drawings made by Arch. Sterie Becu in 1930) or ethnographic and anthropological studies when he paints the monastery interior. The Romanian Itinerary transforms Petrașcu's work into one with ethnographic tangents, intelligently pinpointing the most representative places of that historical continuity and persistence. The ruins of Târgoviște - the old royal residence, the monastic complex of Agapia, Curtea de Argeș, but also the neighbouring areas, the hills (Ro. "muscele"), keepers of Romanian traditions and spirit. Viforâta is also included in this relevant cycle, the monastery near Târgoviște having been in Petrașcu's attention since the beginning of the 20th century, when, in 1901, he was travelling and painting the places.

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