Frățilă

Frățilă carved a niche in early-20th-century printmaking with a single surviving work: the 1916 lithograph Portret de ofițer (Colonel C. Budișteanu), a soldier’s sharp profile etched on stone. The sheet shows the colonel’s brass-buttoned uniform catching the light, the officer’s hat casting a clean shadow across his face—both crisp against the unworked paper. The print’s crisp lines and reserved palette belong to the Symbolist-leaning realism of the era. See how the artist locked the sitter’s gaze without a hint of background noise. Next, tap into the same calm focus with Frățilă’s Portret de ofițer.