Natalia Dumitresco was a French-Romanian abstract painter associated with the Réalités Nouvelles, an association of artists and an art exhibition in Paris focusing on Abstract Art. Following their move to Paris, Dumitresco and her husband Ilastri discovered the circle of fellow displaced Eastern European artists, including Sonia Delaunay. They were also involved in a friendship with Constantin Brancusi, so close that they are buried in the same grave. Dumitresco's style of painting followed the movement of the Post-War trends that evolved in the School of Paris circle. After a number of years working in black and white, she tackled the problem of colour, showing originality and a great freshness of colours in her compositions.Dumitresco won many prestigious awards, including one from the group Espace in 1952, the 1955 Kandinsky Award, the 1957 Prix des Amateurs et Collectionneurs d'Art, and the Carnegie Prize in Pittsburgh in 1959.