L’Écroulement
The Collapse
- Date
- 2005–2006
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 230 × 200 cm
- Period
- Black romanticism, 1992 — 2016
- Reference
- cat. 23
The estate’s catalogue raisonné is the authority on titles, dimensions and authenticity — see ljuba.fr.
Black romanticism · 1992 — 2016
Painted through and after the Yugoslav wars, from a studio increasingly split between Paris and a summer retreat near Mount Athos. The late works — ghost ships, time tombs, the death of a singer — read as self-portraiture by other means. "In the past, I would get rid of my torments by placing them on canvas. Today, I am looking for a refuge in my paintings, peace for the soul."
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