80. Icon on wood, "Mother of God", Romanian school, circa 1900, from the collection of the world vice-champion of bridge Coriolan Neamțu
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80. Icon on wood, "Mother of God", Romanian school, circa 1900, from the collection of the world vice-champion of bridge Coriolan Neamțu
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oil and gold leaf on wood, 35.5 x 22 cm
PROVENANCE
Coriolan Neamțu was born in 1925 in Satu-Mare, into a family of intellectual Transylvanians. He was a graduate of the Faculty of Law and the Academy of Advanced Commercial and Industrial Studies in Bucharest. His special interest in bridge allowed him to overcome professional dissatisfactions, inherent to the communist regime, and passionately dedicate himself to bridge. He was an active promoter and organizer of bridge in Romania, tournament director, and bridge teacher. Coriolan Neamțu wrote and edited between the years 1970-1983 (the year when bridge was officially banned in Romania) the magazine "Expert Bridge", printed and circulated in hundreds of copies in a quasi-clandestinity. He was a journalist by profession, having columns in magazines and newspapers in the country and numerous contributions to prestigious foreign magazines, he wrote a series of bridge literature works: ”Competitive Bridge” (1973), ”Fun Bridge” (1982), ”Start Bridge” (1990), ”Humorous Bridge” (1991) and ”Bridge Conventions” (1991). Being also a great animal lover, the author published in 1979 a book entitled ”The Dog, the Man's Friend”, which enjoyed great success at the time of its release. In the year 2000 he published the volume of maxims and thoughts ”Restitutio in absurdum". He was a member of Jockey Club Romania, the International Association of Bridge Journalists, the world vice-champion of IBPA bridge in 1992 at Salsomaggiore and the editor of the bridge column in ”Free Time” magazine, the weekly supplement of the ”Free Romania" newspaper.
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