Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2016IS-0019
Blue Flowers
Flori albastre
1988 · oil on canvas · 32 × 40 cm
A squat clay jug stands on a brick-pink table and holds a bouquet that opens wide, almost to the edges of the canvas. The flowers — deep blue, ultramarine and white — are laid in short thick strokes, each petal remaining a distinct patch, while the long lance-shaped leaves fan out in blue-green and emerald. The ground is a cool grey-green worked in visible strokes that follow the direction of the bouquet, describing no particular wall. The paint is dense, with raised impasto on the flowers, and the contrast between the saturated blue and the surrounding grey carries the whole picture; the signature appears at the lower right.
Painted in Ploiești — the still lifes and flower pieces from 1984 onwards were made there, in the studio on Ion Creangă Street 15. This work, however, predates 1991, when he took the studio; until then he was a restorer at the Art Museum. Exactly where remains to be settled. Established by the family, August 2026.
MotifsPloieștiflowersstill lifes
- 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
- 2016
How to cite
Ion Șinca, „Blue Flowers” (Flori albastre), 1988. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0019. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/flori-albastre-1988/
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