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107. Winter Sunset [1955-1957]

Ion Ţuculescu

1910, Craiova - 1962, Bucureşti

Estimate

EUR 40.000 - 60.000

Sold post auction

EUR 60.000

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Session

Tue, 22 March 2022 19:00

Taking the ancient folklore and the stylistics of Romanian folk art as his reference points, Ion Țuculescu became from the 1930s onwards a participant in the great movements of universal plastic creation. In addition to the primitive, which attracts him from the beginning, the artist will pay great attention to the real, capturing it in his immediate visual space, the space afterwards being occupied by the popular ethos, thus creating a new reality, directed towards a confessed cosmic mystery. The first creative stage will be dedicated to the Romanian folk art, which will lure him by the proposed modernity, by the specific procedures of geometrization and by the colouring of an impressive decorativeness and vitality. The second creative period will be dedicated to the narrative-pictorial period, during which elements such as butterflies, dolls, totems and triangles will appear, as well as other folkloric objects such as leaves, flowers, birds and jugs. The last creative period, dedicated to signs and symbols, will be strongly marked from the 1960s onwards. This last period, considered the most effervescent from a creative point of view, will be characterized by an abstracted manner, a strong colouring, as well as an increasingly vital rhythm of forms and contours. In addition to portraits, still life and rustic interiors, a special place in his work is occupied by landscapes. A distinctive aspect of this genre will be its chromatic dominants, simplified in structure into primary and secondary tones, the tumult of its palette dissolving the patterns of ordinary realism and post-impressionist experiments. Prominent in his work since the 1930s, the landscape will intensify its appearance over time, taking on various guises. Elaborated around an intimate ethic, with elements taken from the surrounding reality, the landscape depicted by Țuculescu will render restricted imagistic registers, populated with fragments of nature, animals, houses and figures, together with a spiritual chromaticism - an ambience through which the artist invites the viewer to a fantastic reading. (G.M.)

References

VLASIU, Ion, "Ion Țuculescu", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1966. COMARNESCU, Petru, "Țuculescu", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1974. CÂRNECI, Magda, "Ion Țuculescu", Meridiane Publishing House, Sibiu, 1984. Catalogue of the retrospective exhibition "Ion Țuculescu", The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, 1999.

Dimensions

width 61 cm, height 51 cm, custom 51 × 61 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed bottom right, in monogram, with black, "TUC"

Research information

The artwork was part of the exhibition "25 de ani de artă românească" ("25 years of Romanian art"), The R.S.R. Art Museum, December 23, 1972 - March 5, 1973 and is mentioned in the exhibition catalogue at p. 17. The artwork was part of the retrospective exhibition Ion Țuculescu, The National Museum of Art of Romania, 1999 and is mentioned in the exhibition catalogue at cat. 180, p. 57, under the title "Iarna" ("Winter").

Dating

1955-1957

PROVENANCE

the historical collection Ioana Țuculescu, the artist's daughter.

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