Henri CATARGI, French Landscape, 1937

charcoal, paper
19 x 27 cm, 35 x 44 cm (including passepartout)
titled, signed with monogram, dated lower left: Contre jour / HC / 37
good state of conservation

Henri CATARGI (Bucharest, 1894 – Bucharest, 1976)
Artistic education:
National School of Fine Arts Paris, ENSBA (1919), with professor Jean Paul LAURENS.
Académie Julian, Paris (1919).
Académie Ranson, Paris (1920) with professors: Maurice DENIS, Pierre BONNARD, Édouard VUILLARD, Paul SÉRUSIER.Free Academy of Painting (School of Saints Voievozi), Bucharest (1919) with professors: Gheorghe PETRAȘCU, Jean Alexandru STERIADI.
Private studies with the painters: André LHOTE and Marcel GROMAIRE.
Between 1922 and 1975, he held personal exhibitions in France (Paris, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1936), Belgium (Brussels, 1924, 1928,) and Bucharest (1923 – 1975).
In 1973 and 1996, the National Museum of Art of Romania dedicated extensive retrospective exhibitions to him.He participated in eighteen group exhibitions, national and international, among the most important of which we mention: Official Salon. Painting and Sculpture Bucharest, Romanian Athenaeum (1924, 1926), Official Salon. Painting and sculpture, Pavilion of Arts (1927-1929, 1933), Exhibition of the Contimporanul Group, Bucharest (1935, 1936), Exhibition of the Arta Association, Bucharest (1943), International Exhibition in Paris (1937), Venice Biennale (1942, 1958), Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil (1964), etc. Works by the artist are in the heritage of MNAR Bucharest, MMB, MN Brukenthal, Sibiu, MN Peleș, Sinaia, MȚC Oradea, MN Cluj-Napoca, MA Ploiești, Craiova, Brașov, Iași, Constanța, Timișoara, Tulcea, Tg. Jiu and in private collections in Romania, France, and Italy.