Ion Șinca · Exhibitions 2010, 2016, 2024IS-0104

The Old House at Cornu

Casa veche la Cornu

2005 · oil on canvas · 50 × 50 cm

A close framing of the porch of an old house: four brown wooden posts support a wide eave, and the tall hipped shingle roof fills the whole upper register. The rail, with its fretwork balusters, is lined with seven clay pots of red and pink geraniums, the only vivid accent in the picture. Behind the posts a curtained window can be glimpsed, and on either side stretch the whitewashed walls in cream, salmon pink and blue-grey. The light is warm and comes from the right; the paint is thick and smooth, and the whole work rests on the contrast between the red of the flowers and the limewash palette.

Motifshouses & homesteadsCornu

Category · Houses & villages

Where it is today

Not documentedThe work is documented — photograph, catalogue, exhibition — but the archive does not record where it is now. That does not mean lost; it means unrecorded.

Exhibited

2010 · 2016 · 2024

Related works

The old house at Cornu, three times between 2005 and 2007. The detail is taken from the 2007 painting — the same ruin, the same sheet-metal roof; established by the family in August 2026. The 2005 house, with the geraniums along the balustrade, is a different one.

• The Old House at Cornu · 2007
• The Old House at Cornu (detail) · 2007

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Ion Șinca, „The Old House at Cornu” (Casa veche la Cornu), 2005. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0104. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/casa-veche-la-cornu-2005/

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