QUADRO AUCTION #52

The Quadro Auction #52 features 197 artworks, with starting prices ranging from 30 to 12.000 EUR.
The cover of the auction catalog features Corneliu Baba's outstanding 1979 painting House in Venice, which comes from an important collection in Cluj (starting price: 12.000 EUR).
Gheorghe Petrașcu's valuable painting Studio Interior, which the artist painted around the time of his major retrospective exhibition in 1936, will start at the same starting price. The work comes from an important collection in Timișoara, from which Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna's painting Hora (Romanian folk dance) is also being auctioned (starting price: 3.000 EUR).

Among the artworks from the interwar period, the following stand out: Pál Erdős I.'s painting Madonna with the Mountains, painted around 1935 (starting price: 800 EUR), Sándor Szolnay's unusual composition After the Rain, from 1937 (starting price: 1.800 EUR), and Mátyás Varga's painting Rendezvous in Shevchenko Park, from 1943 (starting price: 700 EUR).
The graphic material in the auction is characterised by a variety of techniques. Watercolours, charcoal drawings, ink drawings and engravings by artists such as Béla Gy. Szabó, József Bene, Jenő Korondi, István Nagy, Imre Nagy, Lajos Páll, Constantin Piliuță, Bertalan Székely and Géza Vastagh are available for purchase.

The art of Baia Mare is represented at the auction by paintings by artists such as Petre Abrudan, Epaminonda Boca, János Krizsán, Endre Litteczky, Ödön Mikes, Mihai Olos, Alexandru Șainelic and János Thorma. Notable works include Ödön Mikes' 1919 painting Valea Roșie Street, Baia Mare (starting price: 800 EUR), Traian Bilțiu-Dăncuș's 1964 painting Winter Market under Gutin Mountains (starting price: 1.800 EUR), and Mihai Olos' early painting Still Life with Skull (starting price: 1.800 EUR).

Post-World War II art is represented by paintings such as Albert Györkös Mányi's 1978 work Winter in Cluj (starting price: 2.000 EUR) and Sabin Bălașa's 1990 painting By the seaside (starting price: 4.000 EUR), Cornel Brudașcu's landscape and two still lifes, Ion Dumitriu's painting Haystack at Dawn from 1989 (starting price: 1.600 EUR), and paintings by Horia Bernea and Constantin Flondor.

Among the sculptures, dominated by Sándor Benczédi's small terracotta figures, Ferdinand Gallas's Art Deco masterpiece, Grotesque Dance, a patinated plaster sculpture from 1927 (starting price: 1.500 EUR), stands out.