Roman Greco
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| Born | Roman Grécu 1904 Porcești, Austria-Hungary |
| 💀Died | 1989 Paris, France1989 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Romanian, French |
| Other names | Kaspa |
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| Known for | Painting of Montmartre landscapes |
| Notable work | La belle Gabrielle house, rue Saint-Vincent, Montmartre - 1947 |
| Style | expressionism |
| Movement | School of Paris |
| 🏅 Awards | Prix de Monaco |
| 🌐 Website | www |
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Roman Greco (born Roman Grécu 1904 – 1989) is a French painter of Romanian origin. He is a Montmartrois painter, from the School of Paris, active during the years 1930 to 1970, he found a large part of his inspiration in the landscapes of the Montmartre hill.
Biography
Born in 1904 in Porcești, a poor and isolated village in the Carpathian mountains of Romania in the Sibiu area, Roman was the eldest of three in the family of a shoemaker. His father decided that Roman would succeed him and taught him the job, but he did not like this life; he wanted to become a painter. As soon as he could, he cut himself off to draw or paint on paper, cardboard, wood, walls. One day, the village priest suggested that he decorate a small local church, which he achieved with success.
He was almost twenty-five years old now and decided to hurry to Bucharest in order to take the competitive exam at the School of Fine Arts. He came top of the class and studied there for two years. In the second year, again, he won a competition which offered registration at the School of Fine Arts in Paris together with a year's grant.
Excited by life in Paris, he fell in love with la butte Montmartre and decided to stay there. In order to survive, he had to take odd jobs like a sandwich board man, walk-on roles in some theaters, a porter in the food markets, and for a few coins, he drew people's portraits at the Place du Tertre next to le Sacré Coeur. In Montmartre, he found friends who supported and accommodated him for a while. He did not paint much because the equipment was expensive, so he set himself up as a leather tanner and made all sorts of leather goods.[1]
He was married a few years before the war, became a French citizen, and began to sell some paintings. (He signed the paintings as "Greco" because "Grecu" did not sound good to French ears.)
Little by little, he became a figure of la butte Montmartre, a regular visitor to "le Lapin Agile" where he came across Emil Cioran whom he had befriended at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest; their friendship would last until Roman's death in 1989. Among his friends were Bernard Lorjou and Auguste Frémaux with whom he worked and shared galleries for exhibitions. Until the late 1970s many of his works were selected for "le salon d'automne", a famous Paris yearly painting exhibition.
Work
Much of Roman Greco's work finds its inspiration in the landscapes of Montmartre, including more than half of his paintings. His style is similar to his contemporaries at the School of Paris but with a more violent approach. The gallery owner and art critic Vallobra thus analyzed his style in the magazine Apollo for the 1967 autumn fair:[2]
Il m'a été très favorable de pouvoir découvrir et bientôt révéler au grand public, un expressionniste violent, une peintre tragique : Roman-Greco. D'origine roumaine, ce remarquable révolutionnaire de la forme graphico-subjective et de la matière expressive plastico-objective, est en fait un peintre de caractère : un maître. Après sa formation aux Beaux-Arts de Bucarest, il s'installe à Paris, dans un atelier à Montmartre et obtient depuis peu, le Prix de Monaco. Il a exposé avec Bernard Lorjou dans le cadre de sélection au Salon d'automne en 1961... Le dynamisme de sa déformation caractéristique, confirme chez Roman Greco, la maîtrise et l'originalité. Le colorisme non moins puissant, aux accents fauves accuse un peintre de valeur, dont nous avons remarqué La Conquête de l'espace qu'il a présentée au Salon d'Automne et qui a été sélectionnée pour être présentée au Japon. Nous reviendrons sur ce peintre de caractère, qui est appelé à la haute consécration. Vallobra
Private collections
Part of his work is gathered in the private collection held by his descendants, it brings together more than two hundred works, has been digitized and is made available to the public through a website[3] of a catalog raisonné[4] and public exhibitions.
Une partie de son œuvre se trouve rassemblée au sein de la collection privée tenue par sa descendance, elle rassemble plus de deux cents œuvres, a été numérisée et est mise à disposition du public à travers un site web[5] d'un catalogue raisonné et d'expositions publiques.[6]
The work consists mainly of oils on canvas and drawings. It is classified as follows:
- Montmartre landscapes[7]
- Still lifes[8]
- Churches[9]
- Other Works[10][11]
- Drawings, Indian inks, charcoals[12]
Exhibitions
It is not easy to carefully reconstruct the course of the painter, although he was very regularly exhibited as evidenced by the posters and articles found in the archives of his descendants.
- Paris
- Salons d'Automne at least during 1961 and 1967[13][14]
- Gallery Madeleine Horst[15] where he exhibits alongside painters like Yvette Alde, Roger Bertin, Cahours, Caillaux, Culpepper, Grau-Salla, Marixa, Papazoff, Pierre Theron, Jean Vinay.
- Japan - Exhibition in Japan[16]
- Switzerland - Galerie Saint-Germain in Geneva where he exhibits alone or with other painters like Auguste Fremaux.
Notes and references
- ↑ "Roman Greco la biographie". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ↑ "Archives". Roman Greco (in français). Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- ↑ "L'oeuvre retrouvée du Peintre Roman Greco". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ↑ "Catalogue Raisonné du peintre Roman GRECO" (PDF). www.romangreco.org.
- ↑ "Montmartre". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "Expositions Roman Greco". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ↑ "Montmartre". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ↑ "Still lifes". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ↑ "Churches". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ↑ "Drawings, Indian inks". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ↑ "Various sketches, essays". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ↑ "Drawings, Indian inks". Roman Greco. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "Archives". Roman Greco (in français). Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ "Salon d'automne", Wikipédia (in français), 2020-03-04, retrieved 2020-03-04
- ↑ "Archives". Roman Greco (in français). Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ↑ birklaszlo, birkmayer (2017-09-04). "collect lightbox v1 (protocols.io.jpvcmn6)". doi:10.17504/protocols.io.jpvcmn6.
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