At rest
At rest
oil, cardboard, 57.5 x 37.3 cm
In the avant-garde period, the idea of primitivism became very popular among many European expressionist artists, fauvists or cubists. Inspired by objects such as African masks or carved idols, painters began to create characters with more "raw" shapes.
If the post-impressionist artist from whom this trend started, Gauguin, had to travel to Tahiti to find the perfect source of inspiration for his art, a revolutionary avant-garde artist, Brâncuși, could use his own culture, the traditional Romanian one, as a primitivist source of inspiration.
The bodies and faces of the characters in Klein's work can be compared to images of women in folk art. Unlike Gauguin's sexualized women or Brâncuși's spiritual women, Klein's women are represented in another type of primordial hypostasis, that of cultivators.
The composition represents three women in the field, resting. The foreground of the composition is occupied by a character lying down on her back, and the other two figures occupy the left side of the composition, leaving free the right side which is a scenery of the landscape. The brush strokes are not uniform, varying between relatively evenly covered surfaces and areas "drawn" with the brush.
Klein József
At rest
oil, cardboard, 57.5 x 37.3 cm
- signed at bottom right in monogram with red:
KJ.
- labels on the back: 1. Typed label:
KLEIN József / Csermő, 1896. I. 30. - Auschwitz v. Melk an der Donau, 1945. jan.
Pihenők
olaj
Karton
57.5 x 37.5 cm
jelezve: slow job K.J.
hátoldalon: Éxuutat: K.J. // 1951. Jelzéssel ellátva ceruzavál alul középen.
Magántulajdon
2. Export label 1036/2017 - Condition of the work:
mediocre, curved at the bottom right, and at the bottom left side, the cardboard is deformed to cracked.
- Documents:
export certificate MHO / 674/4 (2017)
- Observation:
the back of the paper must be viewed. To be seen if the condition of the work can be improved.
- Reproduction:
Murádin Jenő: Klein József. Kriterion Könyvkiadó, Bucharest, 1977. Nr. repr. 7. The title of the paper in monograph: Mezőn (On the field).
Klein József
1906, Budapest -?
Eager to follow the artistic path specific to artists trained in the early twentieth century, Klein tried to find a place to settle, initially in Baia Mare, then in the colony of Kecskemét, and in Bucharest.
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