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Reading on Armchair 2 original female nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
2023

Name: Reading on Armchair 2 original female nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
Brand: Paula Craioveanu
Price: 450.25 CHF
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CHF 450.25

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"Reading on Armchair 2" nude, pencil and tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse. Part of Nude in Interior series. Size is 27.5x19.5in / 70x50cm on heavy watercolor paper, with ultramarine blue. Shipped rolled in a tube. Fast shipping, anywhere in the world, 7 days. Free shipping for items over $500 with 1stDibs code FREESHIP. Comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. This piece, Reading on Armchair, executed in ultramarine tempera on watercolor paper, exudes a tranquil yet dynamic presence. The artist’s use of a single, vivid blue hue creates a striking contrast against the white background, lending the work an ethereal, almost dreamlike quality. The fluidity of the brushstrokes, along with the ink splatters and drips, imbues the scene with a sense of spontaneity while maintaining an intimate and contemplative atmosphere. The composition is beautifully balanced—the figure’s relaxed pose, with one leg draped over the arm of the chair, conveys a natural, unguarded moment of absorption in reading. The use of negative space, especially in the rendering of the face and body, allows the viewer to fill in details, enhancing the sense of quiet introspection. The chair itself, drawn with confident yet loose lines, serves as a structural anchor, grounding the composition while also reinforcing the sense of leisure and comfort. The expressive, gestural quality of the work is reminiscent of the drawing techniques used by Egon Schiele or even Henri Matisse’s blue cut-outs, where economy of line and bold monochrome color create powerful, emotive imagery. The splashes of ink add a touch of unpredictability, as if the scene is caught in motion, dissolving into abstraction at the edges. Biography: Paula Craioveanu is a Romanian artist, born in 1976. She grew up surrounded by art and inspiration, in a family of artists. Trained in Bucharest and New York as an architect and painter. Holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Visual Arts. Presently working as a full-time artist. At the age of 16, Paula Craioveanu moved to New York, where she came in contact with New York’s vibrant art scene, she graduated from high school and then studied at Parsons School of Design. Then she moved back to Romania where she studied for the next 6 years at the Architecture University in Bucharest and graduated with a degree in Architecture in 2000. In 2013 she earned a Ph.D in Visual Arts at the University of Arts in Bucharest with the theme “Geometry of Space in 17th century Dutch painting”. After this, she dedicated her full time to art, and showed her talent to the art world. Paula Craioveanu works in acrylic and oil paints, but also pen and ink or tempera works on paper. She regularly participates in shows and exhibitions in galleries along the East and West Coast of the United States, like bG Gallery Santa Monica, Dacia Gallery and Perseus Gallery in New York. Paula Craioveanu’s work is featured on the two most exclusive online art marketplaces, 1stDibs and Artsy. Over the course of 20 years, Paula Craioveanu has created several painting series: “Abstract”, “Interiors”, “Nude in Interior”, “NeoMythology”. Paula Craioveanu’s work has been placed in private collection around the world, both in Europe and in the United States. Today, Paula Craioveanu has set up studios and works in Bucharest and New York. Find original Paula Craioveanu paintings, works on paper and other art on 1stDibs. Next: Works on display - December 2024, Context Art Miami. Artist Statement "I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now. As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space. My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair. Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it. I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting. My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration. My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in color and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings." Paula Craioveanu

Creator:

Paula Craioveanu (1976, Romanian)

Creation Year:

2023

Dimensions:

Height: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)Width: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)

Medium:

Paper,Tempera

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Forest Hills, NY

Reference Number:

Seller: Romanian-American artist. PhD in Visual Arts.1stDibs: LU2240215328032

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Materials

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