Tablou, ulei pe pânză, „Portret Nicolae Ceaușescu”, semnat în partea dreaptă jos C.Macavei și datat 1978. Tablou împărțit în mai multe registre, în plan central Nicolae Ceaușescu salutând oamenii muncii din celelalte registre. Comandat și oferit de Comitetul Județean de Partid Ilfov, 23 ianuarie 1978.

At the core of the work stands Nicolae Ceaușescu, depicted in a formal suit and gesturing toward an imagined crowd of workers. The surrounding faces, rendered with varying degrees of clarity, suggest a collective audience, reinforcing the official narrative of the leader’s connection to the laboring populace.

Macavei employs a warm palette of earthy browns, muted yellows and occasional orange accents that outline the figures. The central figure is rendered larger and more detailed, while the peripheral registers contain softer, sometimes blurred visages, creating a hierarchical visual emphasis.

The painting was commissioned by the Ilfov County Party Committee and formally presented on 23 January 1978. It bears the artist’s signature and date in the lower right corner, confirming its creation for a specific political occasion.

Created during the late 1970s, the portrait reflects the cult of personality surrounding Ceaușescu in socialist Romania. Such state‑commissioned works were intended for public display to legitimize the leader’s authority and to illustrate his purported solidarity with the working class.

While the piece remains a document of its era’s official visual propaganda, it also offers insight into the aesthetic strategies employed by Romanian artists under party directives, illustrating how portraiture was used to convey political messages through compositional hierarchy and color.