Märt Roosma

Märt Roosma’s work coincides with the prevailing moods of the Estonian graphical art of the 1930ies. Then often as models were chosen “simple people” and not rare were such occasions, when the artist asked to sit a person who had been met in the street. This is proved by the works of Andrus Johani, having been exposed at the present auction, but also by Aino Bach’s depition of a Parisian mudlark. Also Roosma’s interpretation is similar to the interpretation, characteristic to the whole period, that generally has been called ”poetic realism”. Roosma gets his inspiration from everyday life, he even does not attempt to depict the gypsy boy in his actual habitat. Instead he places the gypsy boy alone in the middle of the graphical sheet and sees in him something wistful, childish and melancholic.