76. “La Șosea” diner [mid-20s]

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76. “La Șosea” diner [mid-20s]

Gheorghe Petraşcu

1872, Tecuci, Galați - 1949, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 8.000 - 12.000

Sold

EUR 8.000

References

FLOREA, Vasile, "Gheorghe Petrașcu", Ed. Meridiane, București, 1989

oil on canvas, 46.5 x 32 cm, 32x46,5, signed lower left, in black, "G. Petrașcu"

Petrașcu's plein-air-ism has brought to the forefront of the pictorial discourse an unprecedented range of formal reinterpretation techniques, both within the chromatic frame, but particularly in accessing the material dimension of the paste. This well-known characteristic of Gheorghe Petrașcu's oils has evolved under original plastic auspices, in a temperate process of successive accumulations. Even though the artist approached painting using its classical frameworks, working with almost all genres, landscape has stood out as the one that most helped the transformation and evolution of his style. Here we really find the most pertinent sources of influence, those subjects favoured by Petrașcu, in an extensive plastic manifestation. The reason, as we find it in this oil painting, is directed towards the proximal materiality of the human culture: "Old boyar houses, buildings of yesteryears, with the simple and lyrical varieties of the Romanian style; houses with large eaves and pointed roofs, with mysterious porches or posts, with a glimmer of dark cellar reminiscent of dereliction and plunder [...]" (Nicolae Pralea). Târgovişte, the former medieval princely residence, an important fair and access route between the main cities of old Romania, attracted Petrașcu as early as in his youth, becoming his favourite spot for his house and studio for a long time. Between 1920 and the outbreak of the Second World War, the artist filled his canvases with the landscapes of his adoptive city or with scenes from his own studio, thus setting Târgovişte in the great pictorial monograph of modern Romanian art.

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