172. Reverie

Painter, graphic designer, literary critic, art critic and professor, Nicolae N. Tonitza is one of the emblematic personalities of modern Romanian art. Known as the “children’s painter”, due to the child paintings represented via the memories of his own sad childhood, marked by shortcomings and domestic violence, Tonitza established himself as one of the most authentic representatives of modern Romanian expressionism. Nicolae Tonitza’s first contact with art took place in Bârlad, his hometown, where in 1895 he experienced a deep artistic revelation after seeing one of Nicolae Vermont’s drawings exhibited in a bookshop window.

Dimensions

width 15 cm, height 18 cm, custom 15x18

Description

oil on cardboard, signed upper left, in brown, "Tonitza"

Research information

Opera este clasată în categoria Fond a Patrimoniului Naţional Cultural Mobil, prin ordinul ministrului culturii, nr. 2041 din 29.01.2010.

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