Dinu-Alexandre Grigoresco (1 November 1914, Bucharest, Romania – 11 October 2001, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France) was a Romanian-born French painter.

Biography

Dinu Grigoresco was the grandson of

Nicolae Grigorescu Nicolae Grigorescu (; 15 May 1838 – 21 July 1907) was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting. There is a metro station named after Grigorescu in Bucharest. It was given his name in 1990, before which it was named after Communist army ...

, one of the leading Romanian painters of the nineteenth century. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Bucharest before leaving for Paris in 1939, where he won a scholarship to the National School of Fine Arts. He would spend the rest of his life in France. He initially studied under Léon Sabatier and Nicolas Untersteller, though it was the two years that he spent in André Lhote's studio that most influenced his work. A member of the

lyrical abstraction Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: ''European Abstraction Lyrique'' born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered ...

group, he moved in the artistic and literary circles of postwar Paris, befriending, among others, Francis Gruber, Jean Dewasne, and Constantin Brâncuși.Edwin Constantin Fianu, “Dinu Grigoresco à Montréal,” Magazin’Art, 2.1 (1989) : 46. In 1956, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Surindépendants in Paris. Beginning in 1957, he also contributed regularly to the

Salon des Réalités Nouvelles The Salon des Réalités Nouvelles is an association of artists and an art exhibition in Paris, focusing on abstract art. A first exhibition with the name was held in 1939 in Galerie Charpentier, organised by Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Nell ...

. France's Ministry of Culture purchased the painting that he exhibited at the 1974 edition of that salon for the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris. Grigoresco participated in group exhibitions in Munich (1960) and Luxembourg (1972) and his work was featured in solo exhibitions at the Galerie du Haut-Pavé in Paris (1957), as well as in Nantes (1975, 1982, and 1986) and in Montreal (1989). Under the influence of André Lhote, his paintings were initially marked by cubism, though they gradually evolved towards

.Ionel Jianou, “Grigoresco, Dinu-Alexandre,” in Romanian Artists in the West: Anthology, ed. Ionel Jianu (Los Angeles, American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986) : 79. His work falls into two distinct periods. In the first period, black predominates and the artist shunned galleries and the commercialisation of his work. The death of his spouse marked a moment of deep rupture in his art, however. Grigoresco abandoned painting for several years and destroyed part of his inventory of artwork. In the early 1970s, the artist resumed his work. Upward circular movements continue to predominate in this second artistic phase, but the pictorial synthesis is brighter.

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