104. Still Life with Guitar and Harlequin Hat [1947-1953]
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104. Still Life with Guitar and Harlequin Hat [1947-1953]
1881, București - 1958, Bucureşti
Not sold
Selling price
EUR 5.729
oil on canvas, 79 x 60 cm, signed bottom left, in paste, "ISER"
Joseph Iser debuted in public as a draft-publicist who sketched a satirical chronicle of reality in the pages of the newspapers of the time. An excellent observer, expressive and synthetic, the artist devoted the expanse of his canvases to deciphering human typologies. Beginning in 1920, Iser began to turn his attention more towards oil painting. He will pick up everyday subjects and will use trips abroad as milestones in the establishment of his creations. Families of Tartars, odalesques or compositions with typically Turkish props in the center will become Iser's favorite subjects. In the present work, the artist narrows his color palette to just a few shades, alternatively modeled. This time we identify a mixture of influences that start from the Iberian Peninsula, stop in the heart of Italy, where they meet Commedia dell'Arte and then cross the road to the sunny world of Dobrogea. We note the classical guitar in the foreground, which often accompanies the harlequins in his works, as well as the red hat, albeit recurring, specific to the same theme. The opera thus becomes a still nature in which the artist brings together the prop elements he offers to the harlequins from his famous works. The chromatics is opulent, of oriental invoice; the subjects are architecturally ordered and the synthetic lines exactly summarize the forms. Although infinitesimal in the economy of all his works, still nature brings a new breath, strongly marked by oriental influences, which the artist picks up both in outlining the forms and in chromatic choices. The harlequin, become a leitmotif, is transposed both in compositions with characters and in still natures.
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