The Book
Widely recognised in Romania as their greatest painter, Nicolae Grigorescu remains little known outside his own country. His paintings depict a different Romania, the one that existed at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The Carpathian mountains and the Wallachian plains proved to be the greatest source of inspiration for Grigorescu's landscapes but he also did portraits of native people. He did pictures of wandering people, such as the Gypsies and Jews of Central Europe, and also of the Romanian peasants, painting their faces to show the long-term effects of stress and hard labour. This book discusses and reproduces almost every painting done by Grigorescu. Rarely displayed in exhibitions and some never before seen in the West, the paintings that illustrate this book confirm Grigorescu's great talent as a graphic artist and his reputation as one of the most important landscape painters of the late-19th century.
The Author
Catalina Macovei is a fellow of the University of Bucharest in History of Graphic Arts and is the curator at the Library of the Rumanian Academy which houses the print room. She is the author of a great number of publications and she is a regular contributor at different art magazines and TV programs.
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