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 exhibit social expressionism, similar to Georg Grosz or Pascin. He discovered Western painting through books. The war in 1939 and then communism left a deep mark on 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 Galerie Ralph and Galerie Jacques Barbier. His career is quite atypical. While he regularly exhibits in various galleries, several Parisian institutions own his works and his home country recognizes his significance, notably dedicating a retrospective to him at the Romanian Cultural Center in Paris in 1999, Aurel Cojan remains fiercely independent. He knows how to maintain, with the utmost insolence and at a price, complete freedom in both life and painting. This freedom is the great virtue of his work. Coming from a figurative tradition that straddles between expressionism and abstraction, unsettled by the discovery of great American painting and its examples of formal radicalism, his painting, as it developed in Paris, presents itself in the guise of a colored "writing" where figurative signs burst forth and almost entirely transform into abstract configurations. This writing oscillates between an unprecedented virulence, a kind of pictorial "savagery" of impressive power, and the sometimes ecstatic, sometimes melancholic softness of the works on paper, where color becomes veiled. But regardless of its register, a work by Aurel Cojan can be recognized by the fact that the painting seems to be a living thing. Several public collections possess 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.