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Medium: Graphite, conté, coloured pencil, adhesive tape »

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710

Manuscript [14]

Alternate titles: Cenzura II; Manuscripts; Manuscris 14; Manuscris II

1973

Graphite, conté, coloured pencil, adhesive tape on paper

100 x 70 cm (39 3/8 x 27 9/16 in.)

Signed and dated lateral right in pencil: IB/73

Blind stamp [nr.] 14 above the signature

Provenance

Maeve Patricia Hall (née Pryce), Warrenpoint, United Kingdom (deceased 2021)

Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană al României, Bucharest, Romania (purchased from above in 2007))

Exhibitions

Muzeul de artă modernă și contemporană romanească Galați, Galați, Romania, Realitatea și formele ei de expresie, December 1976.

Universitatea de Arhitectură și Urbanism "Ion Mincu," Bucharest, Romania, Scrierea, 1980.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast, United Kingdom, Ion Bitzan Works 1975 - 1985, June 6–29, 1985. (Exhibition catalogue: Arts Council of Northern Ireland 1985), no. 51.[1], as Manuscripts. Traveled to: Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland, 1986.

Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, Ion Bitzan Works 1975 - 1985, 1986, no. 51.1

Romanian Cultural Institute London, London, Exhibition of original works by Ion Bitzan, February 23–March 23, 2006.

Published References

Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Ion Bitzan Works 1975-1985. Belfast, 1985. Exhibition catalogue (1985 Arts Council of Northern Ireland), [51.1], as Manuscripts.

Malamen, Iolanda. Desenul din atelier. Bucharest, Romania: Editura Institutului Cultural Roman, 2017, as Manuscris II, ill. in b/w, p. 90.

Dan, Calin, Magda Predescu, Ann Albritton, and Anca Arghir. Ion Bitzan. Bucharest, Romania: Editura M.N.A.C., 2023. Monograph, #218, as Manuscris 14.

Record last updated March 17, 2025. Please note that the information on website is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Cojocaru, Cristina, and Irina Bitzan. "Manuscript [14], 1973 (710)." In Ion Bitzan Catalogue Raisonné. Ion Bitzan Foundation. www.ionbitzan.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=368 (accessed on March 25, 2026).