Bibliography
His critical reputation was built by an unusually distinguished roster of writers, and documented in monographs across five decades.
Monographs
- 2024
Catalogue raisonné, volume I (1954—1985)
The first volume of the estate’s catalogue raisonné, published alongside the Parisian Ascension exhibition.
- 2003
Ljuba
Cercle d’Art, Paris
- 1981
Ljuba
Gordon Sacks / Alpine Fine Arts
The first English-language monograph, including a catalogue raisonné of the work to that date.
- 1978
Ljuba
Belfond, Paris
- 1971
Ljuba
Le Musée de Poche, Paris
The first French monograph devoted to a Yugoslav painter. De Solier was his earliest champion in Paris.
Films
- 1981
Television portrait
An hour-long portrait for French television.
- 1978
Love-Monster
A short film on the painter by the Polish director.
Who wrote about him
The density of this list is itself the point — few painters of his generation drew sustained attention from so many first-rank writers.
- René de Solier
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues
- Patrick Waldberg
- Alain Bosquet
- Alain Jouffroy
- Etiemble
- Jean-Clarence Lambert
- Gustav René Hocke
- Jean-Louis Ferrier
- Anne Tronche
- Sarane Alexandrian
Full bibliographies, including exhibition catalogues and periodical criticism, are held by the estate at ljuba.fr and at ljuba-popovic.fr.