83. Still Life with Shell and Pipe [2008]

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83. Still Life with Shell and Pipe [2008]

Dorin Coltofeanu

1950, Întorsura Buzăului, Covasna

Estimate:

EUR 2.000 - 3.500

Sold

EUR 4.000

oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, 80 Ã 80 cm, signed bottom left, with pink, "Coltofeanu"

Research information

The artwork is reproduced in the album "Dorin Coltofeanu", Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 2011, at p. 58, under the title "NaturÄ staticÄ" ("Still Life").

"At first glance, Coltofeanu is a well-mannered studio artist, for all the tradition of easel painting with its specific repertoire: landscape, still life, portrait, compositions, etc. Our adventure as unprepared viewers begins in the guise of classical-Renaissance convention and visual memory and stereotypes. In Dorin Coltofeanu's world, existence ceases to be based on matter, it becomes effigy, spirit and eternal aura. From this point of view, the reading of Dorin Coltofeanu's world, a mystical world becomes possible and makes our inner reality visible." (Pavel Șușară, excerpt from the argument at the artist's solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of Moldova)

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