Lot 27, Marcel Iancu - The Portrait of Constantin Brâncuși, 1925* - Romanian artists in the spotlight - Art in Central and Eastern Europe <br> 6th of October - Auctions

The Portrait of Constantin Brâncuși, 1925*

Description

Size: 20.5 x 17 cm, with frame 38.5 x 39.5 cm

Medium: Drawing and watercolor in indian ink, enhanced with yellow pencil on paper

Signed on the front, "Marcel Iancu"

Provenance

Private Collection, Bucharest.

Literature

The work is reproduced in the catalogue Pierre Cabanne "Constantin Brancuși", Editions Pierre Terrail, Paris, 2002, page 137. Reproduced in the catalogue "Brancuși - Omul", edited by Doina Lemny and Erwin Kessler, 2016, page 42.

Location

Bucharest

Price realised €4,392

Estimate €3,000 - €5,000

Description

Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist Marcel Iancu was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading figure of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. An influential figure within all these fields, Iancu was also involved in several key publications during his career - including Romanian neo-avantgarde magazines Contimporanul and Simbolul, as founder, editor, writer and graphic designer. Iancu’s experiments in abstract art stemmed from a theorization of abstract-expressionistic decorations as part of a basic architectural design. In 1926, he was present at the Hasefer Art Show in Bucharest, and created what is often described as the first Constructivist structure in Bucharest. He had several personal exhibitions, in Tel Aviv, Milan and Paris and attended the 1966 Venice Art Biennale. He won the Israel Prize of 1967, in recognition of his work as a painter.

Iancu’s involvement with several other groups of Romanian artists who were similarly striving to promote the principles of modernism, together with his work at the neo-avant-garde magazines led him to create portraits and write articles on fellow artists such as Tristan Tzara, Urmuz or modernist sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, the later of which several portrait drawings exist, including the watercolour in Indian ink on paper.

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