Natalia Dumitresco
Biography
Natalia Dumitresco (born Natalia Dumitrescu; 20 December 1915 in Bucharest, Romania – 3 July 1997 in Chars, France) was a French-Romanian abstract painter associated with the Réalités Nouvelles salon of Paris after the Second World War, a movement influenced by the art of Wassily Kandinsky and Alberto Magnelli. She married the sculptor Alexandre Istrati in 1939, and the couple moved to Paris in 1947. She Died July 3, 1997, Chars, France.Career
She quickly made a name for herself in the French milieu of post-War abstraction. Her austere and rigorous style of painting, in some ways reminiscent of Vieira da Silva*’s, relied on modulations of geometric frameworks – squares, grids, stripes, meshes, circles, rectangles, diamonds – like a kaleidoscope of infinite variations on emptiness and light, in which graphic style and colours are indissociable. She favoured cityscape compositions as her theme of choice: her series of large American cities painted in 1942 highlights the secret mechanisms underlying urban architecture and networks; with the armatures and quadrangular cells that structure the space into labyrinths, optical mazes, and bustling molecules, the artist seeks to capture rhythm and pace through the use of serial repetition.Natalia Dumitresco - Composition
Composition - 1958
Oil on Canvas
24 x 28.5 inches (61cm x 72cm)
Signed and Dated 1958
Natalia Dumitresco - Composition
Composition - 1959
Oil on Canvas
10.5 x 9 inches (27cm x 22cm)
Signed and Dated 1959
Natalia Dumitresco - Composition
Composition - 1955
Oil on Canvas
9 x 13 inches (23cm x 34cm)
Signed and Dated 1955
Natalia Dumitresco - Composition
Composition
Gouache on Paper
17 x 12 inches (43cm x 30.5cm)
Signed Circa 1954
Natalia Dumitresco - Geometrique 1950
Geometrique
Oil on Canvas
54 x 44 inches (137.2 cm x 111.8 cm)
Signed Circa 1950
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