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A row of colourful houses with metal roofs at the foot of a hill, under a pale blue sky.

Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2013IS-0192

The Old Quarter 1

Mahalaua 1

2013 · oil on canvas · 72 × 58 cm

A row of low houses crowds along a lane, their façades in carmine pink, white, pale blue and brick, their metal roofs in crimson, grey and blue set at different angles. Plank and iron fences run in front, and green bushes grow between the houses. Beyond, the hill rises as a blue-green mass with a white crest under a pale blue sky with white clouds. The foreground is a green and ochre slope with the trace of a road. The colour is lively and laid in adjacent patches; the poverty of the place is turned into a chromatic play.

Motifshouses & homesteadsvillagehills

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
2013

Related works

The outskirts, in two works from 2013 — the same edge of town, from far and from close.

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Ion Șinca, „The Old Quarter 1” (Mahalaua 1), 2013. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0192. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/mahalaua-1-2013/

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The Old Quarter 2