31. Nude in Oriental Interior

1871, Bucureşti - 1933, Bucureşti

Estimate

EUR 3.000 - 5.000

Sold

EUR 3.000

Session

Wed, 23 May 2018 19:30

Alexandru Satmary began his apprenticeship near his father, but the direct contact with the artistic world would truly open his visual universe. As a disciple of Nicolae Grigorescu he fell in love with plein-air painting, and the courses at the School of Fine Arts (where he studied with his father's friends - Aman, Ioan Georgescu, Tattarescu, C. I. Stăncescu) directed him as a young artist. Together with Jean Neylies, painter and, in his spare time, fencing partner, he opened the first exhibition, in 1893, where he showed 30 works. 40 years of career followed, an activity supported within the Artistic Youth – which he joined in 1903 – and last but not least, the years dedicated to Balchik, where he lived during the last part of his life. Satmary's interiors are true studies of light that seems to come from multiple sources and is rendered in multiple plays on the multitude of objects populating them. Curtains, carpets, furniture, paintings, vases or instruments, in vivid colours, appear three-dimensional to us through a refined light orchestration that coordinates a typical Satmary palette.

Dimensions

width 89 cm, height 130 cm, custom 89x130

Description

pastel on paper glued on canvas, signed lower right, in red, "Al. Szatmary"

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