Project Description

Lithography

Image size : 31 cm x 41 cm

overall dimensions : 52,5 cm x 65 cm

publishing print : 75 ex

Signed lower right and numbered 72/75 eg bottom left

abstract composition

Natalia Dumitresco (1915 Bucharest - 1997 Chars – France)

French painter of Romanian origin, was born in Bucharest on 20 December 1915. She took courses supremacist in Bucharest and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest 1939. She married the same year, the painter Alexandre Istrati.

Romania

From 1940 at 1947, she works and exhibits in Romania (in 1946, solo exhibition at Sala Dalles, Bucharest). She arrived in Paris in Istrati 1947 where they settle permanently. They are greeted by their compatriot the sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi that hosts them in a studio in the same, Impasse Ronsin in the 15th arrondissement. Their friendship will last until the end and Brancusi designate the couple as executor.

France

In 1965, acquires French nationality and obtained by 1969 First Prize at the International Women's Show.

After a first period constructivist made of geometric elements, she finally found her own artistic language.

A harmonious balance between rigorous construction and soft and poetic any personal expression (filled with humor and tenderness). Chronic gaze indulgent it poses to the outside world and is traced.

His art is based on a very specific idea and personal trait.

A graphical network of vertical and horizontal lines intersects creating a profusion of small colored quadrangles. This complex space is a real conscious evocation of built structures and urban landscapes.

An agreement rhythms, shades and assonance, very subtle relationship between line and color, the artist knows therefore capture and reflect the space.

After using a simple pallet going so far limited to black and white, Natalia Dumitresco emboldened and gradually gives way to a gay language, colored, full irony and distance. Its colors then reflect a certain freshness, great femininity while combining boldness in hues.

The artist transposes his native Romania , in discrete reminders, Popular traditional decorative motifs specific to the apparel fabrics, the men's shirts, to female bodices and ceremonial carpet.

She lets so sucked into its deepest roots, those of Romanian folklore and guided by its internal melodies.

Died in Chars 1997, it shares a grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery Constantin Brancusi and Alexandre Istrati.

Major exhibitions

1954 – Arnaud Gallery, Paris
1964 – Galerie Hilt, Basel
1965 – Gallery Margarete Lauter, Mannheim
1968 – Raeber Gallery, Lucerne
1969 – Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris
1970 – Galerie Cavalero, Cannes
1974 – Raymonde Cazenave Gallery, Paris
1975 – Galerie Cavalero, Cannes
1978 – Galerie Cavalero, Cannes

group exhibitions

1955 – Kandinsky prize (winner)
1956 – Divergences, Arnaud Gallery, Paris
1957 – Price Amateurs and Art Collectors
1959 – PrixCarnegie, Pittsburgh ; Paris School, Galerie Charpentier
1961 – Dumitresco / istrati, Hanover Gallery, London ; Paris School, Galerie Charpentier
1962 – Dumitresco / istrati / Maria Pope, Twentieth century Gallery ; Dumitresco / istrati, Galerie Leonhart, Munich ; Paris School, Galerie Charpentier
1963 – Dumitresco / istrati, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim
1981 – Dumitresco / istrati, Galerie Tokoro, Tokyo
1985 – Dumitresco / istrati, Artcurial, Paris
1987 – Dumitresco / istrati, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris
1991 – Dumitresco / istrati, House of Art Georges Pompidou, Carjac

Musées

Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes ; role, Autun ; Picasso Museum, Antibes …

Bibliography

Dumitresco, Michel Seuphor, Art Today, no 4-5, 1954
Natalia Dumitresco, Twentieth century, 1960
Natalia Dumitresco, Denys Chevalier, Galerie Cavalero, 1970
Prices Kandinsky 1946-1961, Galerie Denise René, 1975
Natalia Dumitresco, Jacques Dopagne, Galerie Cavalero, 1978
Natalia Dumitresco, Alexandre Istrati, Brancusi, Pontus Hulten, FIammarion, 1986
istrati, Dumitresco : a painter of history : Dominique Le Buhan, Artcurial, 1989
Dumitresco / istrati, Patrick-Gilles Persie, Chair Rail Review No. 204, 199

Sources : http://www.bertrand-cayeux.com/

https://awarewomenartists.com/artiste/natalia-dumitresco/

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