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RO-ART-1872-OB
Modern MastersPainting
Octav Băncilă
1872 – 1944 Botoșani
Socially engaged realist, painter of the 1907 peasant revolt.
Trained in Iași and Munich, Băncilă painted the poor and the oppressed. His large canvas '1907' is the best-known image of the bloody peasant uprising.
Works
Notable works
- № 01 · 1907–1915
1907
Oil on canvas
National Museum of Art of Romania
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