Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2013IS-0196
On a Drape
Pe o draperie
2013 · oil on canvas · 41 × 41 cm
A few thin, nearly leafless twigs lie on a crumpled white cloth occupying the centre of the canvas; the remaining leaves — crimson, cream yellow, green and brown — are painted one by one with firm contours and lighter undersides where they curl. The cloth is worked in broad strokes of white, blue-grey and ochre, its folds marked by cool shadows. The background is a dark, almost black green zone at the top, and below appear planks and violet patches. The composition is an open-air still life: fragile objects on a dense ground, the light coming from the white.
Painted in the studio on Ion Creangă Street 15, Ploiești — the still lifes and flower pieces from 1984 onwards were made there. 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
- 2013
How to cite
Ion Șinca, „On a Drape” (Pe o draperie), 2013. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0196. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/pe-o-draperie-2013/
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