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Alexandre Istrati was born on March 9, 1915, in Dorohoi, Botoşani County, Romania.
Bucharest, Romania
Alexandre Istrati studied at the University of Bucharest from 1932 - 1937.
Bucharest, Romania
Alexandre Istrati studied at the University of Bucharest from 1932 - 1937.
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Alexandre Istrati was born on March 9, 1915, in Dorohoi, Botoşani County, Romania.
At the early age of nine, Istrati began to paint, but he decided to study at the University of Bucharest from 1932 - 1937. In 1938, he received his diploma.
Alexandre Istrati arrived in Paris in 1947, where he and his wife, the painter Natalia Dumitresco, were befriended by their compatriot Constantin Brancusi who gave them a studio next to his and helped introduce them to the thriving Paris art scene. Istrati’s uncompromising avant-garde spirit soon became renowned and when he exhibited his first abstract paintings at the Salon des Superindépendants in 1948 the critics applauded his radical new style.
In 1949, he held his first solo show at Galerie Breteau which was so successful the leading art dealers Collete Allendy and Dénise René both invited Istrati to exhibit at their eponymous galleries. In the circle of these highly influential gallerists, Istrati found himself at the forefront of the post-war avant-garde along with artists such as Soulages, Deyrolle, Magnelli and Poliakoff with whom he became particularly close.
Alexandre Istrati developed an international reputation exhibiting extensively worldwide including most notably Gallery Circle and Square, New York (1953), World Houses Galleries, New York (1958), Gres Gallery, Wahington D.C. (1958), Galeria de Arts Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela (1958), Galeria del Naviglio, Milan, Italy (1959), Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (1960), Gallery Hybler, Copenhaguen, Denmark (1961), Gallery Leohart, Munich, Germany (1962) and others.
His works are represented in several major art museums including, Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris, Museo de arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Kunsthalle Zurich, San Francisco Museum, The Hirshborn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
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Alexandre Istrati was a member of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles.
In 1939, Alexandre Istrati married the Romanian painter Natalia Dumitresco.
