74. Tatar Woman in Balchik [mid-30s]

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74. Tatar Woman in Balchik [mid-30s]

Francisc Şirato

1877, Craiova - 1953, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 12.000 - 18.000

Sold

EUR 15.000

References

ISPIR, Mihai, "Șirato", Ed. Meridiane, București, 1979
PĂULEANU, Doina, "Grupul celor Patru", Monitorul Oficial, București, 2012

oil on cardboard, 39 x 48 cm, 48x39, signed lower left "Șirato", in brown

In a period when many artists started to discover and to travel to the space of the Great Romania, so after the year 1918, Francisc Șirato also took a certain visual baggage that he interpreted in accordance with his opinions of art. Although in the early 20s, landscapes were a smaller element compared to the human world, nature later took over the visual plane. From the background or the decorative register, as landscape appeared in works that depict various figures, more or less picturesque - gypsies, merchants, etc. - nature became the main subject somewhere around the mid-20s, at the same time with the discovery of imaginary sources of great resonance. We are speaking particularly of Dobruja, from marine landscapes to Tatar and Turkish villages that filled the Black Sea coast. Tuzla, Techirghiol, Mangalia and Balchik, in chronological order, became sources of the imaginary, often translated into landscapes, even though human figures, so unusual, were also pictorial targets of Șirato. The landscape discovered in Balchik exerted a particular fascination, which we cannot find in any other landscape cycle, and the coordinating qualities of the chosen environment cross the visual both in the final form of oil paintings, and in the quicker versions of watercolours, gouaches and drawings of Șirato. Balchik, also loved by his dear friends Tonitza and Șt. Dimitrescu, was the occasion of a substantial rethinking of the figurative for Șirato. In the landscapes shaped by the artist in the mid-30s, we can also find a refreshed pictorial language, in which the artist develops his affinity for evanescent, translucent elements, related to the fleeting temporality of each blink of an eye.

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