12. Peasants' house at Agapia [about 1875]
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12. Peasants' house at Agapia [about 1875]
References
Vlahuță, Alexandru, Pictorul Nicolae Grigorescu. Vieața și opera lui, Ed. Casa Școalelor, București, 1910.
Ciucă, Valentin, Pe urmele lui Nicolae Grigorescu, Ed. Sport-Turism, București, 1987
oil on wood, 21.5 x 35 cm, 35x21,5, signed bottom left, in red, "Grigorescu"
Research information
The work is reproduced in "Nicolae Grigorescu", George Sorin Movileanu, Ed. Meridiane, Bucharest 1978 in the category 92, with the title "Peasants' house". The work was part of the retrospective exhibition Nicolae Grigorescu, R.S.R. Art Museum, Bucharest 1984-1985 and is reproduced in the exhibition's catalogue in the category 88, page 191. The work is reproduced in "Grigorescu", Alexandru Cebuc, Official Gazette, Bucharest, 2007 at page 120.
PROVENANCE
until 1964, the dr. Ioan Dumitrescu-Popovici collection; 1964-2004, the patrimony of the Romanian National Art Museum; since 2004, the collection of the Dumitrescu-Popovici family’s heirs.
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