Ljuba Popović Painter · 1934—2016
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Alpha et Omega

Date
1972
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
200 × 200 cm
Period
Erotic, 1972 — 1975

Shown in the first major Herold exhibition in Paris, subsequently lost, then rediscovered and sold at auction in 2022.

The estate’s catalogue raisonné is the authority on titles, dimensions and authenticity — see ljuba.fr.

Erotic · 1972 — 1975

Twenty-three large paintings at the Galerie de Seine in 1972, catalogued by André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Etiemble. Mandiargues set him against Dalí that year in the formulation that stuck: the painter of the warm hand, against an ice-cold skill.

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