This season’s auction presents a landmark selection of Romanian post-war and contemporary art, bringing into focus visionary figures who redefined the language of modernity.

At its core stands Ion Țuculescu, one of the most enigmatic figures of twentieth-century Romanian art. Working outside academic frameworks and often marginalised by official institutions, he forged a path that resists easy classification. His paintings reveal a restless exploration that shifts between expressionist impulses, folkloric sources and abstract experiment. The ornamental geometry of Oltenian textiles, the force of colour and the tension between figuration and abstraction converge into a hybrid visual language. Rather than embodying a single aesthetic programme, Țuculescu turned instability itself into a creative strategy, making him a key example of “peripheral modernity” whose resonance has only grown after his premature death.

Victor Brauner and Jules Perahim represent the international reach of the Romanian avant-garde within the Surrealist movement. Brauner’s practice, nourished by mythologies, esotericism and the unconscious, speaks to a visionary imagination that placed him among the most significant Surrealists exhibited worldwide. Perahim, equally daring, navigated between satire, politics and dream imagery, forging works that question ideology while affirming the liberating potential of fantasy. Together, they demonstrate how Romanian artists were not only participants but also essential contributors to the global Surrealist vocabulary.

Sabin Bălașa contributes his iconic cosmic universes, at once mythological and political, while Paul Neagu, with his multifaceted practice and emblematic “hyphen,” extends Romanian art into a global vocabulary of form, body, and perception.

Equally significant are the contributions of Ștefan Câlția, Ecaterina Vrana, Dumitru Gorzo, Ștefan Pelmuș, Felix Aftene, Peter Jecza, Magdalena Rădulescu, and Ioana Tocoaie, whose works expand the narrative from folkloric symbolism to feminist imaginaries and tactile experiment.

The Contemporary Chapter invites collectors to rediscover a plural, vibrant art scene whose resonance extends far beyond national borders, affirming Romania’s central place within the global history of post-war and contemporary creation.