Still Life (Natură statică)* double-sided
Description
Medium: oil on cardboard (painted on both sides)
Size: 69 x 50.5 cm (86 x 68 cm with frame)
Signed on the front lower right and on the reverse: "V. Frimu"
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania
Location
Bucharest, Romania
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Vladimir Frimu received his initial training under Octav Angheluță before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest. The most formative influence on his pictorial development, however, was his contact with Nicolae Tonitza, alongside whom he painted in 1927 toward the end of a period of study in Iași. Tonitza's expressive colorism and structural approach to form left a visible mark on Frimu's subsequent work.
His practice centered on a classicizing still life tradition, composing arrangements of everyday objects — books, statuettes, flowers — drawn from the intimate space of the studio. Within this relatively contained thematic range, Frimu worked with a compositional rigor that situates him within the broader current of Romanian interwar painting concerned with formal order and chromatic restraint. He participated in the Official Salon of 1943, where he exhibited two works, including a still life representative of his preferred subjects.
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