Winter Phantasm 2
A stand of slender dark trees on a band of red-brown earth, under a heavy grey sky.

Ion Șinca · The archive of the workIS-0216

Landscape with Trees

Peisaj cu arbori

watercolour · 48 × 37 cm

A watercolour worked almost entirely wet-in-wet: the sky above is a single heavy grey wash in which the colour settled by itself towards the edges, crossed on the diagonal by a plum-violet band that serves as cloud and hillline at once. Below it opens a strip of ochre-gold light, the only warm place on the sheet. In the middle stands a large grey-green mass of foliage, built from short vertical strokes drawn with an almost dry brush. In front, thinly spaced, a few slender trees — black, upright, leafless trunks — on a band of red-brown earth. In places the colour was allowed to run downwards and the runs were left uncorrected: they stand in for rain and give the sheet its own time, as though the picture had been caught at the very moment it was drying.

Signed lower right, undated · documented in a sale listing on okazii.ro · in the listing: 48 × 37 cm without the mount, 68 × 57 cm with it

Motifstrees

Category · Landscapes

Where it is today
In the family's collection
Secondary market
It has passed through a public auction.A passage through auction tells you the work existed and was for sale then — it does not tell you where it is today, nor who owns it now.
How to cite

Ion Șinca, „Landscape with Trees” (Peisaj cu arbori). Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0216. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/peisaj-cu-arbori/

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