Figures in Landscape (The Conference)

Date

1972–1974

Medium

Colour etching and aquatint on cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate 26.6 × 32.7 cm · Sheet 41.7 × 55.6 cm

Edition

40/60

Period

Erotic, 1972 — 1975

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro

Reference

ref. 1992.264

A print, not a painting — the distinction matters, because secondary sources routinely list this as a canvas. It is one of the few works by Ljuba in a major American museum collection, and the Art Institute catalogues him under his exhibiting name alone: “Ljuba, French, born Yugoslavia, 1934”. The sheet is pencil-signed and numbered from an edition of sixty.

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