Old House

When his style matured, the chromatic became brighter and its effects were easily recognizable. During the war, the house in Nicorești, where he had often worked, was destroyed. In search of a place that would give the much desired peace, Petrașcu stopped in Târgoviște where he built a house with a studio. It was there that he painted his compositions inspired by the residence of the princes of Wallachia, old houses, belfries and landscapes. In Old House, Petrașcu applied a thick layer of paste to define volumes and to obtain a wonderful pictorial effect. In the middle of the composition, he placed the white wall of the old house – recurrent in many of his paintings – and added no other colors. Black and white were used as colors and were integrated in the chromatic composition. The perspective of the mountains, slightly deformed, gave the old building monumentality and solidity.