(b Bucharest, 22 May 1933; d Bucharest, 3 Feb 1987). Romanian painter. In 1958 he graduated from the Institute of Plastic Arts ‘Nicolae Grigorescu’ in Bucharest, where he had studied painting with Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpana (1886–1975), sculpture with Dimitrie Onofrei (1896–1980) and engraving with Vasile Kazar, and where he also taught (1958–87). Grigorescu developed his work through abstract drawings. His rigorous compositions and classical vision are reminiscent of the art of the Renaissance, although he selected forms and motifs from Classical art, Romanticism and Surrealism, and was influenced by the work of Paul Klee. His handling of watercolour to create the effect of weathered translucence, similar to that of medieval frescoes, is evident in such works as the Death of Brâncoveanu (1978; Hamburg, Winter). In the Burning of Arhondology in 1848 (1978; Galati, Mus. Visual A.) Grigorescu used monochrome colours, which he built up to vibrant intensity with dramatic effect. Many of his drawings and paintings are in cycles, in which he attempted to ‘reveal in images, events and people of great significance for the destiny of the Romanian people’. He also produced drawings for the Romanian editions of the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (Bucharest, 1966) and Gérard de Nerval (Bucharest, 1979), and of the Abbé Prévost’s Manon Lescaut (Bucharest, 1972).