77. Elegance (artist's daughter) [1923]

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77. Elegance (artist's daughter) [1923]

Nicolae Vermont

1866, Bacău - 1932, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 5.000 - 8.000

Sold

EUR 7.750

References

PAVEL, Amelia, IONESCU, Radu, "Monographs of artists II - Nicolae Vermont", Publishing house of the People's Republic of Romania Academy, Bucharest, 1958.

oil on cardboard, 81.5 x 64.5 cm, signed and dated bottom right, in green, "Nicolae Vermont, (1)923"

Research information

The artwork participated in the Official Salon of the Athenaeum, 1930.

From the time of his studies, Nicolae Vermont demonstrates his qualities as a portrait artist, with works such as "Workers at the table" or "Portrait of a man". From then until his mature creative years, the artist aims to capture psychological effects of the subjects through compositional organization and successively passes through the specifics of German and French impressionism. In the last years of his creation, between 1918 and 1932, Vermont demonstrates the experience accumulated in the genre of portraiture. The artist uses this medium to study human physiognomy and explore the desire to capture human feelings glimpsed in facial features, gestures, and body attitudes. We find these concerns, for example, in "The portrait of the artist's wife", where "the shadow of stubbornness is caught," as noted by Pavel and Ionescu (1958). Thus, the focus is on psychological traits and on highlighting the moral particularities of the models he depicts. The current work is dated 1923 and depicts the face of a young woman, her gaze fixed on the viewer. The background upon which the model's silhouette is profiled is almost completely black and can barely be distinguished from her attire. Thus, the ensemble with a somber color is invigorated by a few golden and white accents. (L.M.)

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