62. Portrait of an Actress (Florentina Ciricleanu) [anii '30]

The modernist, sometimes experimental, vision is what shaped both Yor's manner and openness to most genres of painting. Iorgulescu-Yor does not have preferences in subject, therefore he stops with equal interest on everything that generously offers to his visual field, thus we discover an eclectic imaginary universe, but more than relevant. Yor's experiment is not transitory, intermediate or unfinished, but is already mature, emphasized and synthesized at the same time. The portrait often appears in a playful atmosphere, but not picturesque, this relaxed atmosphere being skillfully achieved through the use of a technical baggage focused on a proprietary arabesque. The faces of Iorgulescu-Yor's models are sometimes transposed into the landscape, especially in the case of works from the '20s, or they are placed in a neutral environment, but not sterile, deliberately treated in alert shades, deeply pictorial. Unusual character of the interwar cultural environment, actress Florentina Ciricleanu (later Dobreanu) entered the artistic life from the mid '20s, being close to the avant-garde group around "Contimporanul". Otherwise, both Milita Petrascu and M.H.Maxy use her as inspiration in their creations, the young actress becoming a model for the famous "Electric Madonna" (M.N.A.R.) of the latter. Most likely Iorgulescu Yor meets Ciricleanu towards the mid '30s, when our painter gets closer and closer to the avant-garde groups, especially from 1933, when he became a member of the "Criterion" group, along with Maxy, Corneliu Michăilescu, Marcel Iancu or Margareta Sterian.

References

CONSTANTINESCU, Radu Cornel, "Petre Iorgulescu-Yor", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1969. JIANU, Ionel, "The Life of Petre Iorgulescu-Yor", Bucharest, 1940.

Dimensions

width 40 cm, height 48 cm

Description

oil on cardboard, signed upper left, in white, "P. Iorgulescu Yor"

Dating

anii '30

PROVENANCE

the collection of the family of the doctor and philosopher Nicolae Constantin Paulescu.

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