Good general 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 expressionism, similar to that of Georg Grosz or Pascin. He discovers Western painting through books. The war in 1939, followed by communism, profoundly marked him. In 1967, Aurel Cojan participated in the São 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 the Jacques Barbier Gallery. His career is quite atypical. Although he regularly exhibits in various galleries, several Parisian institutions own his works, and his country recognizes his importance— notably dedicating a retrospective to him at the Romanian Cultural Center in Paris in 1999—Aurel Cojan remains fiercely independent. He knows how to preserve, with the utmost insolence and by paying the price, a total freedom of life and painting. This freedom is the great virtue of his work. Emerging from a figurative tradition halfway between expressionism and abstraction, disturbed by the discovery of great American painting and its examples of formal radicality, his painting, as it developed in Paris, presents itself under the guise of a colorful "writing" where figurative signs burst and almost entirely transform into abstract configurations. This writing oscillates between astonishing virulence, a kind of pictorial "savagery" of impressive power, and the sometimes ecstatic, sometimes melancholic softness of works on paper, where the color gets veiled. But regardless of its register, a work by Aurel Cojan is recognizable by the fact that the painting seems to be 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 Gouache Painting Drawing Aurel Cojan Abstract Expressionism signed 1990 Romania See the product Recommended products Provided by Painting Gouache Drawing Aurel Cojan Abstract Expressionism 1990 Art See the product Gouache Painting Drawing Aurel Cojan Abstract Expressionism signed 1990 Romania See the product Type: Gouache Country of origin: France Style: 1990 Genre: Abstract Features: On Paper Theme: Abstract