174. Interior in Paris [1933]

From his very first artistic performances, Theodor Pallady turned out to be an unusual artist. An admirer of Leonardo, the painter denied his own feelings and exuberances, seeking inspiration in the realm of ideas. In an age of profound change in the artistic plane - over the six decades of Pallady's activity, new movements and tendencies have appeared (Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism), whose artistic vision has always altered the language of forms - with his typical steadfastness, Pallady opposed the official art programme, craving the affirmation of the moral values ​​of human life through art. Dominated by the safety of a high creation, in which he poured every ideal, Pallady exerted his own capacities with even more conviction, leaving behind hundreds of studies and drawings, dozens of sheets and paintings, which he often found insufficient in relation to the complexity of his ideation. Pallady remains in the memory of Romanian art as a painter of the urban atmosphere. A personality secluded in his own inner world, Pallady's inspirational horizons narrowed successively, but not in the sense of a limitation, rather that of a thematic itinerary, withdrawing from the realm of the daily city life into his own world of existence. While he originally painted landscapes and nudes en plein air, he then retired to the familiar environment of his own room (the famous workshop in 12 Place Dauphine). Here he painted interiors, nudes, still lifes, works that consolidated his status of living master. The artistic world of Bucharest fed on Pallady's Paris (his intimate universe or the world of the Seine), having the chance to attend 9 individual exhibition of Pallady between 1921 and 1940. This painting, probably included in one of Pallady’s exhibitions in 1933 or 1935, shows us a glimpse of his creation from the fourth decade of the 20th century. The intimacy of the workshop and the close relationship with the model grant a certain familiarity to the entire atmosphere, an effect that has been noted in all of Pallady's compositions of this kind.

References

GEORGESCU, I.L., "Pe urmele lui Pallady", Ed. Lumina Lex, București, 1998
ŞORBAN, Raoul, "Theodor Pallady", Ed. Meridiane, Bucureşti, 1975

Dimensions

width 45.5 cm, height 37.5 cm, custom 45,5x37,5

Description

oil on canvas glued on cardboard, signed and dated lower right, in black, "TP, 1933"

Dating

1933

PROVENANCE

the collection of Ninette Schapira and Gheorghe Răut.

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