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The Old House at Breaza
An old house with a fretwork gable and barn, with a wooden cart at the right, in warm light.

Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2007IS-0115

The Old House at Cornu

Casa veche la Cornu

2007 · oil on canvas, 66 × 53 cm

An old house with a triangular gable decorated in fretwork stands at the centre of the canvas, a large plank gate beneath its porch and its roof partly collapsed, exposing the rafters. At the right a barn with a long roof extends towards the edge, and in front of it stands a wooden cart with large wheels, its spokes clearly drawn. The foreground yard is golden-ochre earth treated in broad strokes. The sky is a warm beige surface with a single bluish cloud above the roof. The colour is warm and almost monochrome, and the state of ruin is described without dramatisation.

A corner of this house is painted close up in “Casa veche la Cornu (detaliu)” (IS-0116), from the same year.

Motifshouses & homesteadsobjects & machinesCornu

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
2007

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.

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How to cite

Ion Șinca, „The Old House at Cornu” (Casa veche la Cornu), 2007. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0115. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/casa-veche-la-cornu-2007/

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The Old House at Cornu (detail)