Ljuba Popović Painter · 1934—2016
L’Invitation pour l’Enfer, 2008–2009, by Ljuba Popović

L’Invitation pour l’Enfer

The Invitation to Hell

Date
2008–2009
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
220 × 200 cm
Period
Black romanticism, 1992 — 2016
Reference
cat. 13

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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