50. Tayu-San in the Garden [1913]

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50. Tayu-San in the Garden [1913]

Samuel Mützner

1884, Bucureşti - 1959, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 15.000 - 25.000

Sold

EUR 42.500

References

ANDREESCU, Viorica, "Samuel Mützner", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1974. MARIAN, Rodica, "Samuel Mützner", Antet Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005.

oil on canvas, 61 x 45.5 cm, 61 Ã 45,5 cm, signed, dated and located, bottom right, with black, "S. MUTZNER, KYOTO, 1913"

Research information

Most probably the work participated in the exhibition "Le Japon", Kretzulescu Hall, Bucharest, Jan. 17 - Feb. 28, 1916 when Samuel MÃ¼tzner exhibited a large part of his oil paintings in Japan between 1912 and 1915. The artwork participated in the Exhibition "S. Mutzner in Bucharest Collections", at the National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, 2001, under the title "JaponezÄ" ("Japanese"). The artwork is reproduced in the monograph "Samuel MÃ¼tzner", Rodica Marian, Antet Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005, on p. 63, titled "Tayu-San Ã®n grÄdinÄ" ("Tayu-San in the Garden").

Endowed with a rich contemplative vision of reality and a perpetual thirst for knowledge of natural environments, artist Samuel Mützner will be the author of a work of art based on description and chromatic sensitivity. During an era of turmoil and artistic revolutions, his creative work will remain in spite of everything in a stable balance. Travelling to the Far East to discover countries such as Japan, China, Korea, the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka helped to teach new lessons in light and colour. He would spend three years in Japan, visiting the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagasaki, as well as the outlying villages, and observing the most picturesque places of Japanese civilisation. He would study physiognomies, costumes and attitudes as well as the landscape. It was during this period that the first large character compositions appeared in his work, in which the artist paid greater attention to the picturesque, to tradition, and to costume and attitudes. Much of the work in this space will be devoted to the representation of Japanese women. The grace of attire and gesture, the elegance of the costume and the taste for picturesque will give his creations decorative features, characteristic throughout the Japanese period. Along with the concern for the construction of the composition, in which the planes alternate and the shapes are mainly aimed at the decorative effect, the artist's attention would also be directed towards the chromaticism, which would record unprecedented freedoms in terms of the choice of the brushwork and the chromaticism. (G.M.)

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