112. Woman with Pumpkin

1887, Casimcea - 1983, Bucureşti

Estimate

EUR 1.500 - 2.500

Sold

EUR 1.600

Session

Wed, 29 March 2023 19:00

Ion Jalea completed his artistic education in Paris, at the Julian Academy, where he worked with professors Paul Landowski and Henri Bouchard. However, their academic style does not offer him the role models he was searching for, as he rather found that vivid and troubled art, which he aimed to accomplish himself, in the art of Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle. Throughout his career, he won the Paris and Barcelona Exposition Universelle Grand Prize, the National Sculpture Prize in 1941, the State Prize in 1957, and, on the same year, the People's Artist title.

Dimensions

depth 10 cm, width 7.5 cm, height 24 cm, custom 24 × 7,5 × 10 cm

Description

bronze, signed on the side of the base, "I. Jalea"

Research information

A version of the artwork is reproduced under the title "Fată cu dovleac" in the catalogue "Maeștrii artei românești. Ion Jalea", State Publishing House for Literature and Art, at position 24.

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