146. Still Life with Yellow Tulips and Theorbo [1941]

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146. Still Life with Yellow Tulips and Theorbo [1941]

Samuel Mützner

1884, Bucureşti - 1959, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 10.000 - 18.000

Not sold

References

ANDREESCU, Viorica, "Samuel Mützner", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1974. MARIAN, Rodica, "Samuel Mützner", Antet Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005.

oil on cardboard, 72 x 59.5 cm, 72 Ã 59,5 cm, signed and dated bottom left, with black, "S. Mutzner, 1941"

Research information

The artwork was part of the solo exhibition Samuel MÃ¼tzner organised in the house-studio from Plantelor street, 1950. The artwork was part of the exhibition "Interbelicii Èi continuatorii" ("Interwar artists and successors"), Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest, 2008.

PROVENANCE

the collection Vasile Parizescu; after 2010, private collection, Bucharest

Evolving in an era of turmoil and artistic revolutions, Mützner's creative activity would develop in a steady balance. He completed his artistic education at the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest (1899-1900), followed by the Royal Academy of Art in Munich (1900-1902), the Julian Academy (1903) and the Académie Nouvelle de Peinture in Algiers (1910). He will leave a vast body of work consisting of landscapes, portraits, self-portraits, genre scenes, still life and flowers. Less evoked than the other genres, still life will make its presence felt from the 1920s to the 1940s in compositions such as: "Natură statică cu pepene" ("Still life with melon") (1927), "Bujori" ("Peonies") (1930), "Floarea soarelui" ("Sunflower") (1939), "Natură statică cu fructe și cozonac" ("Still life with fruit and swirl bread") (1940), "Natură statică cu lalele galbene și teorbă" ("Still life with yellow tulips and theorbo") (1941) and so on. (G.M.)

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