Forms en Rouge. 1953.
Oil on canvas.
Signed upper left. Inscribed "A. Istrati, Impasse Ronsin Paris XV 1095" (by artist?) on verso. 65 x 54 cm (25,5 x 21,2 in).
Inscribed and dated on verso of canvas. [CB].

Alexander Istrati went to Paris on a scholarship together with his wife in 1947. He met with Brancusi, with whom he would be in a friendship that lasted all his life.