Women Reading (Femeie citind)
Description
Medium: oil on cardboard
Size: 39 x 29 cm (51 x 41 cm with frame)
Signed on the front upper left in brown "Tonitza"
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania
Location
Bucharest, Romania
Description
Nicolae Tonitza was a pioneer of Romanian modern art, introducing through his unique vision the new European styles into Romanian art. After graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Iasi, he went to study in Munich where he exhibited for the first time in the presence of Adolph Menzel. He studied in Italy and France until he realised that the world he wanted to explore was his native country. Tonitza was an artist who worshipped colours, giving life to his works through the balance of forms attained from the use of brushstrokes and chromatics.
Woman Reading is characteristic of Tonitza’s endearing domestic life scenes and his portrayals of female subjects found in contemplative or melancholic states. The faint depiction of the woman’s facial features suggests the blurriness of memory alongside a sense of privacy and intimacy. Through the employed expressionist techniques such as dark outlines, unique blends of colour, and distortion, the painting attains cinematic dynamism and conveys a sense of delicate liveliness.
Exhibitions
The artwork was showcased in the Painting and Graphics by Nicolae Tonitza Exhibition, Romanian Art Museum, May - July 1979.
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