Flowers (Flori)*
Description
Medium: oil on cardboard
Size: 49 x 69.5 cm (62 x 81.5 cm with frame)
Signed on the front lower right in dark blue: "Stăncescu"
Provenance
Private Collection, Belgium
Location
Bucharest, Romania
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Description
A practitioner of still life, Elena Müller-Stăncescu worked within a register of formal restraint that distinguishes her output within Romanian genre painting. Her compositions center on familiar domestic objects — vases of carnations, chrysanthemum bouquets, seasonal potted flowers, fruit, and decorative items — rendered with fine draughtsmanship and a luminous, balanced palette in which shadows remain delicate and space contracts around the central motif. The result is a compositional austerity that reads as warm rather than cold, inviting close looking rather than immediate effect.
Her works are present in auction sales and private collections, valued for the quality of pictorial calm they sustain.
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