Marin Petre Constantin Centenary, at Suțu Palace / photo gallery

One hundred years since the birth of artist Marin Petre Constantin are marked at Suțu Palace with an exhibition presenting the artist’s creative journey.

Works representative for the painter’s creative stages highlight the thematic diversity and stylistic coherence of his approach. From lyrical landscapes to figurative compositions, still lifes, and portraits.

Marin Petre Constantin (1925–2017) studied at the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where his teachers were Ion Marșic, George Matei Cantacuzino, Jean Alexandru Steriadi, Nicolae Dărăscu, and Camil Ressu.
Settling in Târgoviște in 1965, he transformed the city and its surroundings into a recurring theme in his work, sensitively capturing the atmosphere of the places and the beauty of the urban and rural landscape.
He was also a professor of painting and drawing at the Popular School of Art in Târgoviște (1971–1983).

His works are found in museum and private collections in Romania and abroad (France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, Estonia). He has had many solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions, and in 1992 he received the Union of Plastic Artists Award at the “Gheorghe Petrașcu” Biennial.

Most of the works presented at the Suțu Palace come from the artist’s family collection.
At the end of the show, on November 30, the second volume of his diary, “Diary of a Painter (1977-2011),” a work of documentary and memorialistic value, will be launched.

The show can be visited at the Suțu Palace from Wednesday to Sunday, between 10:00 and 18:00.