Lot n° 148
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 3 700EUR
Mircea MILCOVITCH (1941)
Opus 716 and 717
Marble.
Signed... - Lot 148 - Crait + Müller
Mircea MILCOVITCH (1941)
Opus 716 and 717
Marble.
Signed on the Milcovitch base.
47 x 38 x 16 cm
Born in Bessarabia, and with an art education in Bucharest, Mircea Milcovitch joins a small group of painter friends with whom he stays in the mountains to "paint on the motif". The small group was soon considered to be at odds with socialist realist art. He took advantage of a second stay in Paris in the aftermath of May 1968, during an exhibition "Nine young Romanian painters for which he was invited", to stay permanently in the capital. He chooses exile and waits two years before his wife, the painter Maria, joins him.
Welcomed by refugee friends on rue du Montparnasse, he was soon naturalized as a French citizen. He obtained a workshop at the Cité des Arts, then from the City of Paris and began to produce important series of prints for more than ten years. He saved some of them, which he took up again with silver pencil, pencil and later charcoal.
Mircea Milcovitch develops an interest in universal symbolism, which he studies alongside his graphic work. These studies will lead him to the publication of his work Des symboles universels à la spiritualité chrétienne in 1991 (Éditions Retz), which he approaches as much from a historical point of view as from the formal register they hold.
A lover of nature and the telluric forces of rocky landscapes, from the Carpathian foothills to the Alpine peaks, Micolvitch practiced his craft of pruning by exploring the Savoy schist. Once his workshop in Nogent-sur-Marne, which allows him to carve without hindrance, he turns to white stones. The Carrara marble mixes in the artist a feeling of fascination for the historical connotation that it holds and a feeling of surpassing, in the difficulty of cutting similar to the summits that he climbs when he is not in his Parisian workshop or in Pietrasanta where he takes up residence in the summer.
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