Flora Macedonski Cantemir

FLORA MACEDONSKI-CANTEMIR (Pollença, 1936 -Barcelona, 2014)
Untitled. 1955.
Oil on tablex.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
It has slight damage to the frame.
Measurements: 60 x 50 cm; 64 x 54 x 6 cm (frame).

This composition is articulated around a group of characters arranged in a frontal and hierarchical way, evoking a sacred iconography reinterpreted from a modern and expressionist language.

Flora Macedonski Cantemir was a painter of early formation and projection, born into a family of outstanding creators. Daughter of the Romanian post-impressionist painter Alexis Macedonski and the painter Florena Laura Cantemir, she showed exceptional precocity, holding her first individual exhibition in 1945.

During the 1950s he exhibited regularly in Palma de Mallorca. In this period he received important commissions from the National Institute of Colonization, making triptychs and large religious ensembles for newly built churches in Extremadura and Aragon, including the altarpieces of El Sabinar (1962), Lácara and Brovales, highly valued for their chromatic luminosity and compositional dynamism. His work is characterized by an expressive figuration of strong emotional and symbolic intensity.