1. Blue House I (Casa Albastră I) – Signed, titled, numbered and dated on the front lower part in pencil: “152/300; screenprint; Casa Albastră I; 2020; Câlția”

2. Blue House II (Casa Albastră II) – Signed, titled, numbered and dated on the front lower part in pencil: “122/300; screenprint; Casa Albastră II; 2021; Câlția”

3. Blue House III (Casa Albastră III) – Signed, titled, numbered and dated on the front lower part in pencil: “195/300; screenprint; Casa Albastră III; 2021; Câlția”

4. Blue House IV (Casa Albastră IV) – Signed, titled, numbered and dated on the front lower part in pencil: “154/300; screenprint; Casa Albastră IV; 2021; Câlția”

Ștefan Câlția is regarded as a central figure in Romanian post-war art, distinguished by a disciplined linearity, a refined symbolic register and a sustained engagement with local cultural imagery. His training at the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts shaped a visual language grounded in clarity of contour, balanced chromatic relations and a measured suspension of narrative. Over the years he has consolidated an oeuvre in which landscape, architecture and emblematic fauna operate as components of a coherent visual world rather than as anecdotal motifs.

Four sheets belong to the Blue House series, a cycle that examines the dwelling as cultural marker and as reservoir of memory. In these works the house emerges almost organically from the surrounding vegetation, its outlines subtly absorbed by the forms of plants and branches. This integration indicates the artist’s interest in the threshold between the natural environment and the built structure. The controlled relation between the saturated blue façade and the earth-toned framing elements reinforces Câlția’s pursuit of visual balance. Within this configuration the motif functions not as a reference to a specific building but as an image of shelter, continuity and the persistence of place.