16. Norman Port (Honfleur) [1929]

Nicolae Vermont is concerned with the fate of people in rural areas, but also illustrates the city life, craftsmen or laborers. He captures the joy of holidays and rural dances, but also captures the aspects of work. An excellent draftsman, Nicolae Vermont will find the aesthetic ideal to create and will masterfully render the gestures and attitudes of his models. The early contact with the art of the master from Câmpina will guide the artist's steps towards the landscape genre, a genre that he will approach throughout his career. Traveling during the 1920s will mark his works with the seal of the West. He often travels, particularly to the Netherlands or France, where he will be enchanted by the hustle and bustle and candor of the ports, parks, and famous boulevards. Whether he depicts sequences from the Champs-Élysées or from the port of Dieppe, the artist adjusts his palette according to the region he paints from. The boats moored at the shore or the imposing buildings and vividly colored churches will lead to more muted tones, with accents of blue and gray.

References

VRANCEA, Angela, "N. Vermont", State Publishing House for Literature and Art, Bucharest, 1956. IONESCU, Radu; PAVEL, Amelia, "Nicolae Vermont", Publishing House of the Academy of the People's Republic of Romania, Bucharest, 1958.

Dimensions

width 15 cm, height 20 cm

Description

oil on cardboard, signed and dated bottom right, in black, "N. Vermont, 1929"

Dating

1929

PROVENANCE

the collection of the world bridge runner-up Coriolan Neamțu.

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