Alexandre Istrati (9 March 1915 in
Dorohoi,
Romania – 28 October 1991 in
Paris,
France) was a
Franco
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* Franco (name)
* Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975
* Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître"
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Romanian painter. He won numerous prizes, including 1953 the
Prix Kandinsky
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He married fellow Romanian abstract expressionist painter,
Natalia Dumitresco
Natalia Dumitresco (born Natalia Dumitrescu; 20 December 1915 in Bucharest, Romania – 3 July 1997 in Chars, France) was a French-Romanian abstract painter associated with the ''Réalités Nouvelles'' salon of Paris after the Second World ...
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See also
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Natalia Dumitresco
Natalia Dumitresco (born Natalia Dumitrescu; 20 December 1915 in Bucharest, Romania – 3 July 1997 in Chars, France) was a French-Romanian abstract painter associated with the ''Réalités Nouvelles'' salon of Paris after the Second World ...
References
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Read, Herbert, ''A Concise History of Modern Painting'', 1958.
External links
ArtNet
1915 births
1991 deaths
French people of Romanian descent
Romanian painters
Abstract expressionist artists
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
French male painters
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