Lot 14, Ovidiu Maitec - The Knight, 1968* - Romanian artists in the spotlight - Art in Central and Eastern Europe <br> 6th of October - Auctions

The Knight, 1968*

Description

Size: 61.5 x 35 x 20 cm

Medium: Walnut wood

Signed and dated with monogram on the base "6M8"

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris. Previously Collection The Earl of Harewood, England. Aquired directly from the artist studio.

This work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the Artist Estate.

Location

Bucharest

Price realised €21,960

Estimate €10,000 - €15,000

Description

Ovidiu Maitec is recognized today as one of the most important Romanian sculptors after Brâncuși. Maitec’s pioneering works with patterns of perforations in wood set him apart from his contemporaries. While other artists of his generation, notably the representatives of American Minimalism, favoured the introduction of cold, industrial forms into sculpture, Maitec turned instead to the natural material of wood. Finding inspiration in the archaic symbolism of myths and traditional objects such as gates, or elements from the natural world, his practice using various types of wood and sometimes bronze was consistent with its visual hallmark. His works have been presented in many prestigious exhibitions and are held in public and private collections in Romania and abroad, including in the Romanian National Museum of Art, Bucharest; Tate Gallery, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Venice Biennale; the Lennon Foundation, Cleveland; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; National Art Gallery of Romania, Bucharest; the Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim; Norrköping Museum of Art; Tyles Collection of Modern Art, University of Tasmania; Baukunst Galerie, Cologne; Manufactures, Hanover; and many others.

Exhibitions

The work was exhibited in 1969 at Cercle Gallery, London.The work was exhibited in 1973 at Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge.

The work was exhibited in 1974 at Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinbourg; Bleucoat Gallery, Liverpool; Alwin Gallery, London.

Literature

The work is reproduced in the catalogue "Maitec - Sculpture 1968 - 1998" edited by Anastasia Foundation.


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