Sandu Darie, Moldavian, Cuban, 1908 to 1991, oil on canvas painting depicting an abstract composition, 1979. Signed Darie and dated lower right. Framed. Sandu Darie was born in Romania in 1908 of Jewish parents Darie trained initially as a lawyer in Bucharest. He migrated to Paris in the 1930s and became part of the first wave of literary and artistic members of the Romanian avant garde diaspora. There, he socialized along with the Romanian circle of writers and artists Brancusi, Tzara, Brauner, and Luca among others, until 1941, when he emigrated to America choosing Cuba as his final destination. Once in Cuba, he established himself as an artist with a strong emphasis on geometric abstraction. After his first solo exhibit in NY at Carlebach Gallery, reviewed in the NYT by Stuart Preston, he initiated correspondence with the Argentinean Concrete Art movement, exchanging ideas and participating in their Concrete Manifesto of 1951. That same year he participated in a group show at the Rose Fried Gallery along with Mondrian, Delauney, Vantongerloo, and Albers. He represented Cuba at the 1953 II Sao Paulo Bienal and was part of the Concrete Cuban manifesto in the 1958 exhibit in Havana of a group of 10. Referred to as the prophet of Concretism by his fellow painters, Darie led the Cuban Concrete art movement beyond local to wider international attention. One of a kind artwork.