{"id":54117,"date":"2025-06-30T20:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/uncategorized-en\/works-from-different-periods-of-tonitzas-career-on-display-at-the-brukenthal-photo-gallery\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:56:37","slug":"works-from-different-periods-of-tonitzas-career-on-display-at-the-brukenthal-photo-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatorial.ro\/en\/art\/works-from-different-periods-of-tonitzas-career-on-display-at-the-brukenthal-photo-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Works from different periods of Tonitza’s career on display at the Brukenthal\/ photo gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Works from the different periods of Nicolae Tonitza’s creative career preserved in the Brukenthal National Museum are part of an exhibition that can be seen during the regular visit.<\/p>\n

The museum’s collection contains some of the works exhibited during the artist’s lifetime as part of the \u201cGroup of Four\u201d, which took place in Bucharest in 1926. The museum’s collection of drawings also includes portraits made in Balchik in the winter of 1936. <\/p>\n

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Exhibition \u201cTonitza\u201d, Brukenthal National Museum, curatorial<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

‘Little Girl’s Head’ (1927-1928), oil on cardboard, depicts a child on the brink of adolescence. Here, the painter overpowers decorativist tendencies in favour of interiorizing the character’s specific features. <\/p>\n

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Exhibition \u201cTonitza\u201d, Brukenthal National Museum, curatorial<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Besides the paintings \u201cLandscape from Mangalia\u201d, \u201cRed Flowers\u201d, \u201cWoman with Two Children\u201d, a delicate portrait of Eliza Manoliu, the artist’s sister-in-law, was painted in the early period of his creation (ca. 1912).<\/p>\n

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Exhibition \u201cTonitza\u201d, Brukenthal National Museum, curatorial<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The exhibition is complemented by a \u2018Self-portrait\u2019, oil on canvas, painted in 1910, when the artist was in Paris.<\/p>\n

The most expensive Nicolae Tonitza work sold at last year’s Artmark auction, \u201cMaternity,\u201d is on display at the National Art Gallery at 5 Great Square for a year. The work was the most valuable lot in the fall auction \u201cTop 100 Great Masters of Romanian Art\u201d held on October 22, 2024. The oil on cardboard – estimated at \u20ac90,000 to \u20ac160,000 – was sold for \u20ac200,000. <\/p>\n

Considered a \u201ctrue phenomenon\u201d of Romanian painting in the first half of the 20th century, a complex personality, a painter and graphic artist of a special sensibility, an \u201cexceptional artistic temperament\u201d, socially involved through his art and his pedagogical activity, Nicolae Tonitza (1883-1940) occupies a special place in the history of Romanian art, being appreciated by specialists and collectors for the talent and value of his work, for its modernity and originality, and by the public for the emotion that his works trigger in the viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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