It was a window open to a completely new world of peace, tranquillity and timelessness, all achieved through the marriage of beautiful things, put together with the greatest sensitivity in a living space, which was a Home. By going there we learned a new way of life, a new way of love and, in the process, our spirit became richer.
Entries Tagged as 'Art Collections'
People I met: Jim EDE – Cambridge Art Aficionado and Collector
April 18th, 2017 · Comments Off on People I met: Jim EDE – Cambridge Art Aficionado and Collector · Art Collections, Art Exhibitions, Education, Famous People, OPINION, PEOPLE
Tags:"Centre for Romanian Studies - London"·"Constantin Roman"·cambridge·editor·Henri Gaudier-Brzeska·Jum Ede·Kettle's Yard
PEOPLE I MET – Nathalie DUMITRESCO & Alexandre ISTRATI
March 24th, 2017 · Comments Off on PEOPLE I MET – Nathalie DUMITRESCO & Alexandre ISTRATI · Art Collections, Art Exhibitions, Diary, Diaspora, Famous People, PEOPLE, Uncategorized
Looking back at the dinner in Brancusi’s old atelier, the memories are like a replay of a magic dream. In the summer evening the narrow lane of Impasse Ronsin, now completely vanished, was deserted. As I rang the bell, I remember I was not a little surprised, that before I was let in, Istrati looked up and down the lane, I presume to check if I may have been shadowed by some unwanted troll… For the uninformed reader one should point out that Paris of the ‘60s to late 1980s was replete with cloak and dagger stories, which would have made Agatha Christies’ stories a child’s play: indeed, one could not be too careful.
Tags:"Constantin BRANCUSI"·A;exandre Istrati·ATELIER·Brancusi Travel grant Cambridge·Bucharest·cambridge·Constantin Brancusi Memorial Symposium·IMPASSE RONSIN·Jim Ede·Kettle's Yard·Natalie Dumitresco·Painter·Prometheus
BLOUSE ROUMAINE: Daughters of BESSARABIA – Milita PATRASCU (b. 1883, Nisporeni, MOLDOVA – d. 1976, Bucharest, ROMANIA)
June 26th, 2016 · Comments Off on BLOUSE ROUMAINE: Daughters of BESSARABIA – Milita PATRASCU (b. 1883, Nisporeni, MOLDOVA – d. 1976, Bucharest, ROMANIA) · Art Collections, Art Exhibitions, Books, Communist Prisons, Famous People, History, International Media, PEOPLE, POLITICAL DETENTION / DISSENT, quotations
Milita Pàtrascu (b. 31 December 1883, Nisporeni, Bessarabia – d. 1 February 1976, Bucharest): Sculptor, pupil of Constantin Brâncusi, graphic artist/illustrator, member of the 1930s-1940s Avant-Garde Group Arta Nouà Movement
Arrested in 1959 by Romania’s Communist regime but saved by writer and politician Mihail Sadoveanu and kept instead under house arrest.
Tags:"Centre for Romanian Studies - London"·"Political prisoner"·"pupil of Brancusi·Aretia Tattarescu·Bucharest·Column of Infinity·editor·Eileen Lane·English·Gate of the Kiss·Milita Pàtrascu Chisinau·Moldova·Nisporeni·Paris·Romania·romanian·Sculptor·Table of Silence·Targu Jiu
Poetry in Translation, (CCLXXII) – ENGLAND, Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887-1964): “Answers”, “Răspunsuri”
March 11th, 2014 · Comments Off on Poetry in Translation, (CCLXXII) – ENGLAND, Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887-1964): “Answers”, “Răspunsuri” · Art Collections, Books, International Media, PEOPLE, Poetry, quotations, Translations, Uncategorized
Even when all small answers build up to
Protection of my spirit, still I hear
Big answers striving for their overthrow.
And all the great conclusions coming near.
Tags:"Centre for Romanian Studies - London"·"Constantin Roman"·"Edith SITWELL"·"English to Romanian translation"·"http://www.romanianstudies.org"·editor·England·Osbert Sitwell·poem·poetry·poezie·romanian·Sacheverell Sitwell·traducere·translation·“Answers”·“Răspunsuri”
Collection of Antique Prints and Engravings (16thc – 19th c), (Part II)
November 2nd, 2013 · Comments Off on Collection of Antique Prints and Engravings (16thc – 19th c), (Part II) · Art Collections, Art Exhibitions, Diaspora, International Media, OPINION, PEOPLE, Reviews
From a prima facie evidence it seems that this collection is not matched by similar efforts in the public domain, either in Romania, or elsewhere. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, also has not got this material although it covers immediately adjacent areas, such as the Levant and the Middle East, through the recent acquisition of a collection from a retired Shell executive.
The late Professor’s Oprescu’s collection, given to the Romanian Academy Prints Department, has some beautiful examples of watercolours and sketches, some by Count Prezziosi, but does not overlap with our prints. Prince Nicholas of Romania’s collection of maps has been dispersed soon after the Second World War. Sadly “Ceausescu’s surrogate “Muzeul Colectiilor” of Calea Victoriei, in Bucharest has relegated an important inter-war collection of historic engravings, donated by a private collector, to a “deposit” in a damp basement, sadly forgotten and most certainly ruined: such is the wisdom of our Wallachian luminaries, otherwise, known as “boierii mintii”(…).
Tags:"16thc – 19th c"·"Collection of Antique Prints and Engravings"·"Constantin Roman"·Bucuresti·Collection·engraving·London·Moldavia·prints·Romania·Transylvania·Wallachia
