Good overall condition, see photo, signed at the bottom, see photo The painter Aurel Cojan was born in 1914 in Beceni, Romania. He passed away in November 2004 in Paris. His early works around 1933 show a social character of expressionism, similar to Georg Grosz or Pascin. He discovered Western painting through books. The war in 1939 and later communism deeply affected him. In 1967, Aurel Cojan participated in the Sao-Paulo Biennale with a series of drawings. Aurel Cojan moved to Paris in 1969 after seeking political asylum. His first exhibition in Paris took place in 1978 at the Chevalier gallery, followed by other exhibitions at the Ralph Gallery and Jacques Barbier Gallery. His career is quite atypical. While he regularly exhibits in various galleries, several Parisian institutions possess his works, and his country recognizes his importance, notably by dedicating a retrospective to him at the Romanian Cultural Centre in Paris in 1999, Aurel Cojan remains fiercely independent. He manages to preserve, with the utmost insolence and at a cost, total freedom of life and painting. This freedom is the great virtue of his work. Rooted in a figurative tradition that straddles expressionism and abstraction, shaken by the discovery of great American painting and its examples of formal radicality, his painting, as it developed in Paris, presents itself as a "writing" in color where figurative signs burst forth and almost entirely transform into abstract configurations. This writing oscillates between unparalleled virulence, a kind of pictorial "savagery" of impressive power, and the sometimes ecstatic, sometimes melancholic softness of works on paper, where color veils itself. But regardless of the register, a work by Aurel Cojan is recognized by the fact that the painting seems a living thing. Several public collections own his works: National Museum of Bucharest, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, National Fund for Contemporary Art Recommended products Provided by Painting Gouache Drawing Aurel Cojan Abstract Expressionism signed 1990 Romania See the product Recommended products Provided by Painting Gouache Drawing Aurel Cojan Abstract Expressionism Art 1990 See the product Type: Gouache Country of origin: France Style: 1990 Genre: Abstract Characteristics: On Paper Theme: Abstract