Thesaurus paintings are back at the National Museum of Romanian Art through private donation of Alain Bonte

Newsroom 21/01/2017 | 10:00

Endeavours for the attraction of donations and acquisitions of artworks destined for the National Museum of Romanian Art (MNAR) have been started for two paintings by Anton Chladek (1794-1882), classified in the Thesaurus category. They are again in the National Gallery of the museum through the donations that the Bonte Foundation made, via Alain Bonte, businessman and president of the Bonte Foundation, headquartered in Romania.

The works were part of the Manu Collection and were included in the MNAR heritage up to their return to the previous owners in 2015. This initiative materializes for the first time a public-private approach to recover an important heritage of Romanian art.

Starting from Sunday January 15 2017, the National Culture Day, the paintings that illustrate Alexandrina G. Manu and Anica Manu in Polish costume are exhibited in the Romanian Modern Art Gallery.

The portraits of Alexandrina G. Manu (first photo) and Anica Manu (second photo), commissioned by the Manu family in order to consolidate their social status illustrate the openness towards novelty, portrayed in the ladies’ costumes, in their less rigid stances, alongside the conformity of the mural representations.

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