82. Imperial Icon on wood, "Saint Nicholas the Miracle Worker", Romanian school, first half of the 19th century, from the collection of the world vice-champion of bridge Coriolan Neamțu.

Размери

width 67 cm, height 89 cm

Описание

tempera and gold foil on wood

ПРОИЗХОД

Coriolan Neamțu was born in 1925, in Satu Mare, into a family of Transylvanian intellectuals. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and the Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies in Bucharest. His particular interest in bridge allowed him to overcome professional dissatisfaction, inherent to the communist regime, and to passionately dedicate himself to bridge. He was an active promoter and organizer of bridge in Romania, tournament director and bridge professor. Between 1970-1983 (the year bridge was officially banned in Romania), Coriolan Neamţu wrote and edited the magazine "Expert Bridge", printed and distributed in hundreds of copies in a quasi-clandestine state. As a professional journalist, with columns in domestic magazines and newspapers and many contributions to prestigious foreign magazines, he wrote a series of bridge literature works: "Competitive Bridge" (1973), "Entertaining Bridge" (1982), "Start Bridge" (1990), "Humoristic Bridge" (1991) and "Bridge conventions" (1991). As a great lover of animals, he published in 1979 a book titled "The Dog, Man's Friend", which was very successful at the time of its release. In 2000 he published a volume of maxims and thoughts "Restitutio in Absurdum". He was a member of the Romania Jockey Club, the International Bridge Press Association, 1992 world vice-champion of the IBPA at Salsomaggiore, and editor of the bridge column in the "Leisure Time" magazine, the weekly supplement to the "România Liberă" newspaper.