14. Untitled

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14. Untitled

Ion Nicodim

1932, Constanţa - 2007, Paris

Estimate:

EUR 1.000 - 1.600

Not sold

ulei pe pânză, 65 x 45 cm, signed on the back, in pencil, "Ion Nicodim"

Named in 1976 as "Planetary Citizen" by the UN, along with esteemed personalities such as Martin Luther King, Arthur Miller or Yehudi Menuhin, Ion Nicodim has stood out over time as a worldwide artist. Currently, the United Nations Palace in New York still hosts his monumental tapestry "Song to Man," titled after the Arghezian poem. In his youth, Nicodim managed to break into the great world of universal art, where he discovered artists such as Matisse, Bonnard or Malevich, whose works will remain strongly imprinted in his subconscious. He was admitted to the Art Institute of Bucharest at the age of just 17 and dedicated much of his time to study and research. His inward search would be expressed through a wide variety of display media, so the artist demonstrated his skills in monumental art, tapestry, mosaic or ceramics. Among his notable involvements we mention the painting of a church in Slobozia or the illustrations made for a volume signed by Emil Cioran, a volume that was gifted by the Romanian state to François Mitterrand, the president of the French Republic at that time. Although his works will undergo permanent stylistic permutations over time, they will bear more or less the stamp of his native Dobrogea and the Mediterranean spirit that will never leave the artist, despite his settling in a western country in 1977. The search for the sea and the identification "to the essence" with his birthplace, as the artist himself declared, will converge towards the unmistakable stylistic stamp of the Dobrogean artist.

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