Ion Șinca · The archive of the workIS-0053
Savonarola
1998 · tempera on paper · 19 × 15 cm
A figure composition worked in tempera on a violet-brick ground. At the right a large male profile — sloping forehead, frontally drawn eye, sharp nose — occupies the whole register, reduced to a few black lines and grey patches. At the left rises an elongated white figure built from parallel hatching, like a bandaged form. Between them an intense blue field is crossed by black horizontal bars, by two white clouds set down like objects, and by a black-and-white triangle descending at the centre. The touch is dry, applied in layers that let the ground show through; nothing is described realistically — the work functions as a sign rather than as a scene.
The Florin Suțu collection · alternative title (on the reverse): “Compoziție 5”
Motifsfigures & portraits
- Where it is today
- In the family's collection / The studio at the „Ion Creangă” school — sources that do not yet agree
How to cite
Ion Șinca, „Savonarola”, 1998. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0053. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/savonarola-1998/
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