Image Source: WIKIART.ORGSANDU DARIE
1908-1991
Sandu Darie was born in Roman, Romania in 1908. Darie went to Paris in the 1930s, where he became part of the circle of Romanian avant-garde writers and artists such as Luca, Brancusi and Tzara. In 1941 Sandu Darie emigrated to Cuba and developed into a leading representative and promoter of abstract and concrete art in Cuba.
He exhibited successfully at the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1949 and at the Venice Biennale in 1952, and took part in the São Paulo Biennale three times (1953, 1955 and 1957). In addition to Cuban museums, Darie’s works are in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
SANDU DURIE BIOGRAPHY
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Sandu Darie (also referred to as Sandú Darié Laver) was a Romanian artist. Trained initially as a lawyer, he had contacts with the Romanian avant-garde (in particular, the poet Stephan Roll and his wife, the painter Medi W. Dinu) and eventually took up painting.
After spending a while in Paris, in 1941 he settled in Havana, where he would also die. In 1946, he joins the Latin-American geometric abstract art group Madí. Later he was a member of the Diez Pintores Concretos group.
Source:
"Sandu Darie," Wiki Art, Web, Sep. 2017
Mixed media on paper
11 3/4 x 10 inches
Signed upper right and lower left corners
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