80. Table X [1998]

Sorin Ilfoveanu

1946, Câmpulung Muscel

Estimate

EUR 2.500 - 3.500

Sold post auction

EUR 2.500

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Session

Thu, 19 October 2023 19:00

Sorin Ilfoveanu focused primarily on the valorisation of the common life and on transcribing it through the pictorial semantics of his sensitivity. He summed up, both in form and colour, the simplicity of the telluric universe in which he worked. He captured, through a synergy of lines, an entire universe in which he encrypted symbols and mystery. The artist split his creative potential into cyclic themes, which he constantly returned to in new shapes, and to which he awarded particular attention and new meaning, every time. The subject of this work is divided into titles such as "Hierophany" or "The Table". Ilfoveanu uses the former to invoke sacredness and religion, mystery, and spiritual revelations. His intellectual capacities are particularly demonstrated in his still lifes, which confess to his artistic refinement or to his sensitive visual impulses. Using a logical and simple construction, the artist brings together shapes and colour schemes, thus managing to augment the effect proposed by the bland lines describing the motif. Ilfoveanu placed offerings on his tables, either in the form of vegetal nature (nuts, apples), or in the form of animal nature (pheasant, fish) The fish occurs as a symbol of life and of wisdom, it acquires moral sense, directed to the inner world, and it reveals an emotional facet. (D.C.)

References

The catalogue "Ilfoveanu. Grife / Bark Blazer", Victor B Victor Publishing House, Bucharest, 2002.

Dimensions

width 124.5 cm, height 100 cm, custom 100 Ã 124,5 cm

Description

acrylic on canvas, signed and dated upper left, in brown, "Ilfoveanu, (19)98"

Research information

A version of the work is reproduced in the album "Atelier", Sorin Ilfoveanu, UNArte Publishing House, Bucharest, 21010.

Dating

1998

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