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SANDU DARIE Cuban 1908-1991 Oil on Board

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SANDU DARIE Cuban 1908-1991 Oil on Board
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Oil on board, framed. Featuring an abstract expressionist composition. Signed and attr. Sandu Darie (Cuban, 1908-1991) on the lower right corner. 24 x 31.5 cm (9.4 x 12.4 inches). Frame size: 40 x 48 cm (15.8 x 18.9 inches). Romanian-born artist Sandu Daríe was initially trained as a lawyer, but his exposure to the Romanian intelligentsia resulted in his choice of a painting career. After studies in Paris, Darié moved permanently to Havana in 1941. His works evince the basic tenets of Concrete art, a combination of planes, primary colors and form fused with geometric rigor stimulated by Piet Mondrian's Neoplasticism. His most innovative works include irregular-shaped canvases and structures with moving parts, connoting the principles of the Latin American MADÍ movement that wished to break from traditional painting and focus on the concrete and physical reality of art. Daríe was constantly preoccupied with space, light and color as well as with viewer participation in the motion, perspective and movement of his works. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate