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2025


June 2025
3 Alupi paintings will be sold on auction on Tuesday June 3, 2025 at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris.
You can bid online or through phone call. Shipping worldwide.
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Cernica, pastel, estim. 500-600€
Paris, oil, estim. 1000-1500€
The Apple Tree, oil, estim. 500-600€

2024


February 2024
The Golia Monastery - a 1965 oil on canvas - joins the permanent collection of impressionist and post impressionist paintings of the Hermitage Museum of Saint-Petersburg.

The painting is exhibited in the General Staff Building along the French painters of the same period, in room 429.



Le Palais de l'Etat major du Musée de l'Hermitage à Saint-Pétersbourg
Saint-Petersburg, the General Staff Building, where visitors can see the Alupi painting. This building forms a huge square with the Winter Palace opposite.


On February 23, 2024, Nicolas Petrescu, Alupi's grandson, was received by Mr. Mikhaïl Piotrovski, the director of the Hermitage Museum, who handed him a letter of thanks for his donation to the Museum.


On our way to the General Staff Building with Mr. Mikhail Anikin, the eastern european painting curator, who first solicitated this donation. (In the background is the Winter Palace).

The painting is displayed in the permanent collection of the museum, in the Louis Valtat room (nr. 429).

Automatic translation of the explication cardboard ; and view from the room over the Neva river canal.

Golia Monastery in Iasi
C. Alupi, Golia Monastery in Iasi


September 10-28, 2024
Simultaneous exhibition at the Sciences and Culture Russian House in Paris to celebrate the event.


Opening of the exhibition on Sept.12, 2024, with a video broadcast from Saint-Petersburg of Mr. Dedinkin's speech (he is the director of the Western European painting at the Hermitage). Near Călin's self-portrait in charcoal is his wife's portrait - Sanda.



Underneath: Nicolas Petrescu and his wife, Alena in front of Nicolas' and his mum's portraits. A sad memory, as Antonina Alupi, the unique daughter of Călin Alupi, had just passed away earlier on this same year 2024. On her portrait, Antonina is 33 years old, she was already settled in France at the time, after having fled illegally the communist regime of Romania 10 years earlier.
Alena and Nicolas also met in 2024, while Nicolas was travelling to Russia, and they married in June in Paris the same year. Together, they will continue keeping alive the memory of the grandfather through his painting on the western and eastern side of Europe and even of the Ural mountains!