Nicolae Grigorescu’s 1865-1873 oil on canvas ”Sleeping Nymph”, nicknamed ‘The Great Nude’, has been sold for €330,000 through Artmark, after having been estimated at €100,000-200,000. The work comes from the collection of former banker Ernest Goodwin, director of the Banque […]
‘Finis Africae’, by Alexandru Crișan, the starting point of the exhibition ‘Roots’, a visual ode dedicated to the immovable material heritage, a meditation on the unchanged world that served as a source of inspiration for Constantin Brâncuși, can be seen […]
A bust of General Giuseppe Garibaldi dominates the park in front of the former Floreasca Cinemascope and, when unveiled just over six decades ago, the street nearby was also given the same name. In 1961, officials from Sicily donated the […]
Anca Poterașu Gallery in Bucharest participates in the New Art Dealers Alliance fair in New York, May 7-11. The event brings together more than a hundred exhibitors and the Romanian gallery is included in the main section. NADA New York, […]
Răzvan Anton, an artist from Cluj-Napoca, who opened recently his third exhibition with Gaep Gallery, brings to the spotlight the heliographic technique he used to reproduce images taken between 1968 and 1989. It shows places and people captured on 8mm […]
Art Museum Brasov announces the exhibition program for the spring-summer season and invites the public to explore a diversity of artistic perspectives. Works from the institution’s heritage, which analyze post-war art or the symbolism of reading in art, and contemporary […]
The most expensive painting by Nicolae Grigorescu auctioned by Alis is “Woman Sewing/ Femeie cosând”, a small oil on cardboard, which is on sale on 2 March. The 25.5x32cm painting, unsigned, was bought in the early 20th century by Stelian […]
“Forgotten Romanian Painters”, part of the Art Safari season which starts on March 7, brings together more than one hundred paintings signed by dozens of artists who have made a significant contribution to the history of Romanian art, but whose […]
The only clearly authenticated Rembrandt van Rijn painting in the National Art Museum of Romania (MNAR) is “Haman before Esther”. It is on permanent display in the European Art Gallery, in the room bearing the painter’s name, where are on […]
“Dark Eyes”, oil on cardboard by Ion Țuculescu, estimated to be worth up to €50,000, part of the collection of George Macovescu, Foreign Minister (1972-1978) and President of the Writers’ Union (1978-1982), was sold at Artmark for €62,000, the highest […]
