Ion Popescu Negreni

Ion Popescu Negreni was born on January 2nd, 1907 in Negreni, Olt. Graduate of Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest, in 1931, at the class of painting of professors Camil Ressu and Constantin Artachino. Between 1954 and 1972 he was professor at Institute of Fine Arts of Bucharest. He died on 28 October 2001.

Personal exhibitions:
- 1955 - "Nicolae Cristea" Hall, Bucharest;
- 1967 - Dalles Hall, Bucharest; Sinaia; Rm.Sarat; Tg.Mures; Cluj; Timisoara; Satu Mare; Piatra Neamt; Bacau;
- 1976 - Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
- 1984 - Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
- 1987 - National Museum of Art, Bucharest;
- 1992 - "Galeriile Centrale de arta", Braila;
- 1993 - "Galeriile de arta" of National Military Palace, Bucharest;
- 1996 - "Louis Calderon" Gallery - Bucharest.

Group exhibitions:
- 1937 - Autumn Salon, Bucharest;
- 1942 - Galati;
- 1948 - Exhibition "Flacara", Bucharest;
- 1953-1989 - Annual of state, Bucharest;
- 1957 - Exhibition "10 years of plastic creation", Bucharest;
- 1959 - Bucharest;
- 1960 - Factory "Republica", Bucharest;
- 1965 - Mogosoaia;
- 1971 - Bucharest;
- 1972 - Exhibition "Romanian Landscape", Bucharest;
- 1973, 1974, 1987, 1991, 1996 - Bucharest.

Romanian abroad exhibitions:
- 1958 - Moscow;
- 1968 - Prague, Menton;
- 1969 - Tel Aviv, Scopje, Lüdenscheid, Beirut;
- 1971 - Baghdad;
- 1973 - Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Cuiaba, Montevideo, Beijing, Tientsin, Phenian;
- 1974 - Caracas, Santiago de Chile, Beirut;
- 1975 - Baghdad.

Prizes:
- 1968 - "Meritul cultural" 2nd class;
- 1979 - prize for painting of Fine Artists Union;
- 1987 - The big prize of Fine Artists Union;
- 1992 - Romanian Academy prize.

Documentary visits abroad in: Bulgaria, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Spain.

Works in museums and private collections in: Romania, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Israel, U.S.A., Brazil, Switzerland.

Address: Studio: Bucharest, Mihail Kogalniceanu place, nr.1, sc.1, et.7, România; Home: Bucharest, B-dul Mihail Kogalniceanu, nr.30, ap.22, România.

Phone: home: +401.6131706; studio: +401.6148524.

    Self portrait         Two women                  Flowers


 
         The portrait           The peasant             Stefania


    Still live with fruits        Flowers with books           Flowers in white vase


        Landscape                 The fisherman house        The neighborhood at Otopeni


   Tulips in blue vase                  Peonies                          Flowers


     Self portrait      The mother of the painter     Self portrait


       Yellow flowers                  Gabriela                      Landscape


            Study                       Study                 Study


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