95. Peasant Women [1940-1945]

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95. Peasant Women [1940-1945]

Camil Ressu

1880, Galaţi - 1962, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 8.000 - 14.000

Not sold

References

ENESCU, Theodor, "Camil Ressu", Editura Meridiane, Bucureşti, 1984
ENESCU, Theodor, "Camil Ressu", Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Române, Institutul de Istoria Artei, Bucureşti, 1958
SCHOBEL, Doina, "Expoziţie retrospectivă Camil Ressu" (catalog de pictură şi grafică), Muzeul de Artă al Republicii Socialiste România, Bucureşti, 1981-1982

oil on cardboard, 62 x 43 cm, 43x62, signed lower left, in pencil, "C. Ressu"

Research information

Opera este reprodusă în catalogul "Camil Ressu", Mircea Deac, Monitorul Oficial, București, 2011, la pag. 74, cat.52 .

Camil Ressu was one of those concerned with the realisation of an art that reflects the Romanian reality, a truly national one. Rejecting the poporanism movement and easy motifs, he sought in folk art the origin of an authentic style, which had to reflect the spirit of Romanians. By rejecting the borrowed forms that had penetrated the art of that period, with the departure of artists to study abroad, he was concerned with finding legitimate sources for the specific Romanian style that had to be learned, to be able to stand at the centre of a national painting school. Thus, Ressu's great painted compositions almost invariably deal with simple men, peasants, country life, workers, or the ritual of work. The world of the village started to be a favourite subject in the artist's creation, especially after the 1920s, when he showed a tendency of taste for the monumental, the decorative and the accentuation of symbolic value. This subject, that of a couple of peasant women (one with a rake and the other with a raised skirt), appears later in Ressu's creation, in the first half of the 1940s, but individually, the characters are composed as early as the period when the painter made "Resting in the Field", so the mid-1920s.

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