Natalia Dumitresco
Natalia Dumitresco | |
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![]() Natalia Dumitresco in her studio, 1956 | |
Born | Natalia Dumitrescu 20 December 1915 Bucharest, Romania |
Died | 3 July 1997 Chars, France | (aged 81)
Nationality | French-Romanian |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Abstract Art |
Spouse(s) | Alexandre Istrati |
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. Other abstract expressionist painters associated with the Réalités Nouvelles include Serge Poliakoff and Alexandre Istrati. Dumitresco later married Alexandre Istrati
After a number of years working in black and white, she tackled the problem of colors, showing originality and a great freshness of colors in her compositions.
She and her husband are buried in the same grave with Constantin Brâncuși.
References[]
- Read, Herbert. A Concise History of Modern Painting. 1959. Pg. 217.
- Seuphor, Michael. A Dictionary of Abstract Painting. 1958. P. 166
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- 1915 births
- 1997 deaths
- 20th-century French painters
- 20th-century French women artists
- 20th-century Romanian painters
- 20th-century Romanian women artists
- Abstract expressionist artists
- Artists from Bucharest
- French women painters
- Romanian women painters
- Romanian artist stubs
- European painter stubs
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