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| Magdalena Rădulescu |
“What is important for me is to have a place in the space, as small and humble, where I can paint”, Magdalena Rădulescu.
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| "Romanian Mona Lisa" oil on canvas, signed below in brown on the right side, dated 1946, 81.5x64 cm Dr. Nour collection |
"Painting is music. A carnival music you listen to, and you assume it is performed in the fairytales with ladies or in the Eastern stories, a pagan and at the same time sensual music”, Magdalena Rădulescu.
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| "Imperial wedding" oil on canvas, gned below in black on the right side, 42x81 Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Clowns" oil on canvas, signed below in black, on the right side, 50x61 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Dance" oil on canvas, signed below in brown on the right side, 91x56.5 cm Dr. Nour Collection |
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| "King Oedip" oil on metal, signed below on the right side, 56x86.5 cm, with a handwritten mention on the reverse "King Oedip with George Vraca and Marioara Voiculescu - the metal is part of the ruins of the National Theatre done by Magdalena Rădulescu" Dr. Nour Collection |
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| "Leaves of story" oil on canvas, signed below in brown on the right side 24.5x33 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Rider" mixed technique, signed below in black on the left side, dated 1974, 42.5x35 cm Dr. Nour collection |
“At the age of seven I was painting the portraits of some Hun little girls, later on, I had painted the landscapes of Balchik, now I don’t paint landscapes anymore, but in my visions, the Eastern elements keep coming back again”, Magdalena Rădulescu.
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| "Hun girls" oil on cartoon, signe below in black on the right side 31.5x25 Dr. Nour collection |
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”It irresistibly attracts me all that is pompous, decorated, I like the soldiers, the parades, the fanfares…I am like a child when I see them. The fair remains my greatest passion, the fair-grounds, the places with many spotted people. I like the precious stones because they have magic virtues”, Magdalena Rădulescu.
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| "Dance" oil on canvas, signed at the left side in grey 33x52cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Horses in the wood" oil on canvas, signed below in black on the right side, 46x61 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Dance" oil on cartoon, signe don the right side in black, 48.5x64 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Dance" mixed techinique, signed on the right side by scraych, 41x54 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "The cavalcade" mixed technique, signed ont he right side in brown, 30x45 cm Dr. Nour collection |
“I had just moved to Nice. My only wealth at that time, was no less than ten paintings, who nobody cared about, and very little money…the money finished after a few days, when I had to pay the hotel. I needed a place to live, to draw. With the help of a Romanian –a gardener-I had managed to get one: a garden, property of this man, a very beautiful garden, close to the Roman Arena. A castle could be seen behind. A huge southerner castle, in due form, huge, luxurious, ranked, mysterious, castle of the Coconato counts, occupied only by the warders, a man with wild moustache and his wife. These kind people offered me a room in the castle. A huge empty room, in which the only furniture was a huge mirror. The walls were empty, I decorated them with swords and armours taken from the other rooms. At night, so I can have a little light (I used to work at night too, I used to work a lot), I put twelve lightened candles on the floor. In the air stream that crossed the castle, the flames were bowing, the tapestries that were hanged on the walls of the near rooms were moving and were making a silent noise, like step echoes. I had lived there for a year and a half. I had painted, I think, hundreds of paintings, which I opened an exhibition with, at the Muratore Gallery in Nice, afterwards in Vence. It was a success, I started gaining. I had populated the Coconato castle, for one a half year I lived in it, with all the images and the dreams that were still in me and that returned now, with a force, with a terrible clearness”, Magdalena Rădulescu.
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| "Dance" mixed technique, signed below on the right side with an inscription, dated 1975, 28.5x20 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Round dance" oil on canvas, singed below on white on the right side, dated 1974, 46.5x55 Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Dancer" crayons, signed below in pencil ont he right side, dated 1957, 23x15 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Allegoric characters" mixed technique, signed below in paste on the right side, dated 1969 Dr. Nour collection |
“Now I am situated on the path I was trying to realize for a long time and I think I did it, namely to directly provide the image, in a very short time and with a great rapidity without deceiving in the drawing or in the color. When I was a student at Grande Chaumiere, I made copies at the Louvre Museum
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| "The grooms table" mixed technique, signed on the right side in brown, 50x69 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Mauritanian" oil on canvas, signed below in black on the right side, 46x38 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "The bride (Elena Neamtu's portrait) oil on canvas, signed below on brown on the right side, dated 1943, 73x62 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Woman portrait" oil on canvas, signed below on the black side, 60x49 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Potrait" mixed technique, signed on the right side in black, 41x30 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Potrait" oil on leather, sighed below on left side in black, 27x22 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Marioara Voiculescu's potrait" mixed technique, signed below in brown on the left side, 71.5x60 cm Dr. Nour collection |
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| "Virgin Mary with Jesus" oil on plywood, signed below in black on the right side, dated 1976 on reverse by the artist, 25x18 cm Dr. Nour collection |
In her last years of life she painted little. She succeeds to organize a couple of personal exhibitions in Paris and Bucharest
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| "Petre Oprea's portrait" coal and ceracolor on paper, signed below on the right side, dated June 16th 1957, 26x22 cm Reproduction on the Petre Oprea cover book "Contact with art", Bucharest 1994 Petre Oprea collection |
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| Reproduction on the Petre Oprea cover book "Contact with art", Bucharest 1994 Petre Oprea collection |
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| "Saint" (Petre Oprea's portrait) coal on paper, signed Magdalena below on the right side, dated and situated on June 18th 1957, Sinaia, 22x15 cm Reproduction on Petre Oprea cover book "The Journal of a first museograph (1961-1966)", Bucharest 2000 Petre Oprea collection |
“Now I do literature too. I make little books in which I relate the lives of the artists from the Montparnasse age where I had lived for 10 years and where I had met many painters that became famous… I write these stories the way I perceive them and I illustrate them in the same time with the stories from then in water colors… I have an extraordinary memory and I remember them all as I would see a colored movie”, Magdalena Rădulescu, from an interview given to the critic Paul Dudea in 1975.
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| Magdalena Rădulescu |
Life elapses between the creating activity and a sort of monotony and isolation- which although meant a big creative victory and provided her independence, now manages to sadden her.
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| Magdalena Rădulescu and her paints |
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| Magdalena Rădulescu and her niece |
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| Magdalena Rădulescu |
