Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2015IS-0039
View from Brebu
Priveliște de la Brebu
1994 · oil on canvas · 64 × 51.5 cm
A snow-covered hill seen across a wide valley: at the back rises a white-blue crest caught in fresh snow, under a cream sky almost without cloud. At its foot a band of slate-blue woodland closes off the village — only a few roofs and a thin line of red are hinted at. The near slope is divided into large plates of pink-grey, ochre and brick, and a red-brown path descends diagonally through the lower right corner. Two leafless trees stand alone on the ridge, their thin trunks and branches jerking upwards. The paint is thick, laid in broad slices; the colours stay muted — pink, blue-grey, ochre — and only the red of the houses and the road brings warmth. Signed lower right: I. Șinca / 94.
The Art Museum’s records list it as “Peisaj”, 54 × 51 cm, while the auction results give “View from Brebu”, 64 × 51.5 cm — sold in 2023. The work is entered under both provenances; which of them is the real one remains to be settled.
Motifstreeswinter & snowhillsroadsBrebu
- Where it is today
- „Ion Ionescu-Quintus” Prahova County Art Museum / In the family's collection — sources that do not yet agree
- Exhibited
- 2015
- 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, „View from Brebu” (Priveliște de la Brebu), 1994. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0039. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/priveliste-de-la-brebu-1994/
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