115. Channel in Chioggia [1934]

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115. Channel in Chioggia [1934]

Gheorghe Petraşcu

1872, Tecuci, Galați - 1949, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 15.000 - 22.000

Not sold

References

CONSTANTINESCU, Paula, SCHOBEL, Doina, "Expoziția de pictură G. Petrașcu" [catalog], Muzeul de Artă al R.S.R., București, 1972
Catalogul Expoziției "Gheorghe Petrașcu", Fundația Dalles, București, 18 martie-14 aprilie 1936

oil on wood, 27 x 18 cm, 18x27, signed upper right "G. Petrașcu", in black

Research information

Opera a participat la expoziția personală Gheorghe Petrașcu, 18 martie - 14 aprilie 1936, Sala Dalles, București și este menționată în catalogul expoziției la cat. 149, sub titlul "La Chioggia".

As we learn from his biography and the dating of his landscapes, Petrașcu painted in Venice between 1902 and 1939, when it seems he made about 10 trips over there. Among the most important itineraries, we find those that came to fruition in 1924, 1928 and 1934, when the painter persisted and made a series of representative works. One of the motifs that particularly attracted him coagulated around the majestic palaces lined along the Canale Grande. Petrașcu's Venices impress with the materiality of the pictorial surface, with the water, sky or buildings lining the channels leaving a strong mark. The rough matter used by Petrașcu, as well as the technique of placing and cutting the colour on the cardboard or on the canvas, remove fluidity and give the feeling of an image frozen in the landscape depicted by the artist. The painter expresses the accidental and the transitory, reminding of that uniqueness of a thin seen in a split second, with heightened picturality, enclosing the motif in the rough linearity of the painting. The painted objects seem to be stirred in colour to be found again in firm lines, in the disarming structurality of the composition.

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