Educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Natalia Dumitrescu emerged as one of the most distinctive Romanian painters of her generation. She graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Her lifelong marriage with the Romanian sculptor Alexandre Istrati made them an important artist couple of the time. They moved to Paris in 1947 where they shared the studio with Constantin Brâncusi with whom they are buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. Her artist friend played an important part in Natalia Dumitrescu’s recognition and the publication of her monography in 1986. In Paris she was part of the Réalités Nouvelles after the WWII. Wassily Kandinsky had a major influence on her practice which can be seen in how she created abstract forms...