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The Sleep
Two peasants are resting after working the fields. Far from painting just a casual scene, Baba represents the peasants as archetypal creatures investing their gesture with ritual solemnity. The rest is a dignified fall and the sleep is a surrender to the elemental world.
Creator
- Corneliu Baba
- Corneliu Baba
Subject
- sleeping on the ground
- farmers
Type of item
- oil painting (technique)
- Oil painting
Creator
- Corneliu Baba
- Corneliu Baba
Subject
- sleeping on the ground
- farmers
Type of item
- oil painting (technique)
- Oil painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Creation date
- 1959
- 1959
Places
- Municipiul Timişoara
Current location
- Timișoara Art Museum
Identifier
- #20327b5f-6343-4d7b-98cf-e96971c2834c
Extent
- height: 100 cm
- width: 120 cm
Relations
- http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22977282
Year
- 1959
Providing country
- Romania
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-02-12T12:08:52.957Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-10-10T19:33:22.619Z