85. Beautiful Minds (Exit from the Opera) [anii '40]

The beginning of Eustațiu Stoenescu's career is marked by the years spent around Jean-Paul Laurens, the French master who for over a decade would coordinate his artistic directions. After this incipient stage (1900-1915), Stoenescu's work will anchor in French modernity, his works finding much more easily resonance in the context of the Western European public. This fact was also marked by his passion for portraiture, a passion that will recommend him in important social circles in France and Great Britain. His career as a portraitist would give Stoenescu the financial freedom necessary for experiments, trips and artistic concepts that would place him among the great masters of Europe. Regarding the landscape, Stoenescu's compositions of the time (the interwar period) underline a deeply urban vision, being attracted especially by the picturesque architecture rather than nature. The most important views will thus capture Paris and Venice, the former being more predominant in theme at the beginning of the third decade of the past century. From Stoenescu's brush, we thus receive some expressive images with the Stock Exchange, the Garnier Opera House or various night images, a series to which can also be appended the current composition, which captures a Sunday morning on the steps of the Madeleine church.

References

REZEANU, Paul, "Eustaţiu Stoenescu (1884-1957)", Bucharest, 1998 OPRESCU, George, "Stoenescu", Ed. House of Schools, Bucharest, 1946

Dimensions

width 61 cm, height 39.5 cm

Description

oil on canvas

Research information

The artwork was part of the retrospective exhibition "Eustatiu Stoenescu. The Portraitist of the Aristocracy", Art Safari, Bucharest, 2024 and is reproduced in the exhibition catalog.

Dating

anii '40

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