83. Seascape

1890, Bucureşti - 1958, Bucureşti

Estimate

EUR 1.500 - 2.500

Sold

EUR 1.500

Session

Wed, 23 May 2018 19:30

Dimensions

width 50 cm, height 40 cm, custom 50x40

Description

oil on canvas, signed lower right, in brown, "R. Maniu"

Research information

Opera este clasată în categoria Fond a Patrimoniului Naţional Cultural Mobil, prin ordinul ministrului culturii, nr. 2041 din 29.01.2010.

PROVENANCE

30s-50s, collection of Romanian diplomat Basil Stoica (1889 - 1959), a close friend of Thomas Masaryk and Ionel I.C. Brătianu, who spoke 14 foreign languages, fought for the founding and establishment of Greater Romania, was president of the Romanian National League in America in 1918, minister plenipotentiary in Bulgaria and Albania (1930-1936), The Netherlands (1937-1939), general secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1939-1945), negotiator of the cause of Romania as co-belligerent country in 1946 at the Paris Peace Conference; he died in Jilava after 9 years of detention; the collection was seized from the diplomat's family in 1977 by the National Museum of Art of Romania; in 2009, after the fall of the communist regime, following a long series of trials, it was restituted to the diplomat's heirs.

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