Natalia Dumitresco (1915-1997)

Séjour paisible 1965 Oil on canvas signed lower center, dated and titled on back 65 x 81 cm Provenance: > Galerie Cavalero, Cannes (label on back) > Private collection, Paris Condition report : Framed "In 1947, the arrival in Paris of Natalia Dumitresco, who had trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where she had married the sculptor Alexandre Istrati in 1939, was doubly decisive. A neighbor of Brancusi, whose friend she became, along with her husband, his universal legatee, she played a key role in the sculptor's institutional recognition, notably with the publication in 1986 of a major monograph on Brancusi. Already a well-known figure in Romanian art circles, and marked by the lessons of Kandinsky (she was awarded the Kandinsky Prize in 1955), she quickly established herself in the post-war French abstract scene. Austere and rigorous, her painting, not far removed from that of Vieira da Silva, offers modulations of geometric patterns - squares, grids, striations, meshes, circles, rectangles, rhombuses - a kind of kaleidoscope of infinite variations around void and light, in which graphics and colors are inseparable." Agnès de La Beaumelle (Excerpt fromDictionnaire universel des créatrices. Éditions des femmes - Antoinette Fouque, 2013)