158. Femmes nues [1934]

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158. Femmes nues [1934]

Marcel Iancu

1895, Bucureşti - 1984, Tel Aviv, Israel

Estimate:

EUR 15.000 - 25.000

Not sold

oil on cardboard, 50 x 70 cm, 50 Ã 70 cm, signed bottom right, in black, 'Janco'

Research information

Mihaela Janco was kind enough to confirm the authenticity of this work. The work is reproduced in the 'Marcel Janco' catalogue, Massada Ltd. Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 1982, p. 66, under the title 'Naked Women'.

PROVENANCE

Iancu family collection

In 1930, Marcel Iancu (Janco) was at the peak of his career. He had just returned to Romania from Zürich, where he had studied architecture and where he had been one of the founders of the DADA Zürich group, and from France, where he had worked as an architect reconstructing buildings from the ruins of the First World War. In Romania, together with his friend Ion Vinea, he founded the 'Contimporanul' (The Contemporary) magazine, a platform for all the avant-garde groups in Europe. Together with his brother Jules Janco, he set up and worked as a modernist architect in the 'Frații Iancu' architectural firm, establishing an international reputation that persists to this day. At the same time, he worked hard on some of the most famous works of art, exhibited both at the Bucharest Salons and in galleries and museums abroad. The current work depicts young, nude, attractive women as models in the artist's studio. They suggest an apparent confidence in one's own beauty and attractiveness; a rare work that conveys a mood, a joie de vivre, in prosperous and optimistic times. (Michaela Mende Janco, granddaughter of the artist and manager of the Marcel Janco Foundation)

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