David Crist, died in 1988, she recovered from this loss with the help of a supportive circle of friends.

When her beloved husband, retired Air Force Col. Again in 1986 at Gallery 10, she continued this format with Memoires Part II. In 1984, at Gallery 10 simultaneously with her autobiographical art exhibition based on her Memoires about her childhood and life in Romania, she published a catalogue of these stories. Her works gained a following among art patrons, including Olga Hirshhorn, one of Washington's leading art collectors. Crist embraced silkscreen printmaking and experimented extensively with the medium. In other paintings and panels, she portrays bare-breasted women and felines sensually intertwined. Her works depict dreamlike, surreal scenes of partially dressed women posing seductively in opulent, sometimes fantastical, settings. Working with acrylic paints on wooden cut-outs and transparent polyester resin small sculptures, Crist created images reminiscent of her childhood at her family's country estate, Ograda, near Ploiești. ' Carousel', silkscreen by Noche Crist, 1973, Noche Crist Trust The gallery became known for promoting and showcasing new artists under her influence. She exhibited in Hawaii, Frankfurt, Paris and elsewhere before settling in Washington DC in 1963.Īfter several exhibitions in different venues, she co-founded Gallery 10 in 1974, and appeared there in both group and solo shows during the next two decades.

Noche Crist accompanied her husband on his military assignments to Hawaii and various European countries while developing her distinctive artistic style with little or no formal training. He attended one of Noche’s art shows there, after buying one of her watercolors, he insisted on meeting the artist and they fell in love.Īs his fiancée, he arranged for her to travel to Washington from Bucharest, just prior to the Communists taking over the Romanian government, and they married in 1947. In 1945, she met David Crist, an American Air Force officer assigned to the Allied Control Commission in Bucharest. ' Carpathian Ancestor', silkscreen by Noche Crist, Noche Crist Trust

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