Romanian painter Grigorescu's Bull Cart to be auctioned in New York
Other Bull Cart – or Ox Cart – paintings signed by Nicolae Grigorescu have made headlines in the past. One was sold last year in Romania at an Artmark auction for a record price of EUR 155,000 in October last year and the buyer was Romanian investor Mircea Cristian Vescan, the owner of Armax Gaz Medias, according to Romanian media. Another one has been reported stolen from the memorial house Petru Groza in Deva, and has been evaluated at EUR 175,000.
Nicolae Grigorescu's paintings are usually highlights of art auctions in Romania and sell for some of the highest prices.
Nicolae Grigorescu, one of the founders of modern painting in Romania, has lived at the end of the 19th century. He studied in Paris and returned to Romania where he joined the Romanian army in the War of Independence as a frontline painter. He is mostly known for the portraits of peasant girls, for several ox carts and rural landscapes.
Corina Saceanu, corina@romania-insider.com
(photo source: Bonhams)