74. The Forester's House [1900-1905]

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74. The Forester's House [1900-1905]

Nicolae Grigorescu

1838, Pitaru, Dâmboviţa - 1907, Câmpina

Estimate:

EUR 18.000 - 25.000

References

VLAHUȚĂ, Alexandru, "The Painter Grigorescu - His Life and Work", Alexandru Vlahuță, Bucharest, 1910.

oil on wood, 14 x 23.5 cm, signed bottom right, with pink, "Grigorescu"

Research information

The work is reproduced in the Minerva Calendar, 1909. The work is reproduced in "Nicolae Grigorescu. Life and Work," Alexandru Vlahuță, Socecu Publishing, Bucharest, 1910, p. 2.

PROVENANCE

the historical collection of writer Alexandru Vlahuță (1858-1919).

One of the most coherent cycles that developed and persisted until the last years of his creative life, rooted once he arrived in Câmpina, focused on the proximity of the subjects that established Grigorescu in the national art: the rural landscape. The primary quality of the work developed over the last 15 years of his creation lies in his vision, an unmistakable vision that translated through direct contact with immediate reality, filtered (or not) through such passionate lyrical sensitivity. The landscape was truly won when Grigorescu managed to connect his style to that vision, through his own opinion on Impressionism, the value of things, and the guiding aesthetics. Agapia, a place truly “sacred” in the Grigorescuian imaginary, was both an initial source, during his first journeys to paint the monastery, and one of the last places traversed in his final years. In the oil painting before us, we discover a Grigorescu from more than 40 years after Nicu the painter, who was contracted by the abbess of Agapia in April 1858 to paint the entire church. This first contact would become truly important during the Romanian itineraries, which Grigorescu planned with such care, especially starting in

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74. The Forester's House [1900-1905]

74. The Forester's House [1900-1905]

Nicolae Grigorescu

References

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