Paradis Perdu (Désir I)
Paradise Lost (Desire I)
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 200 × 195 cm
- Period
- Mythic and mannerist, 1976 — 1979
- Reference
- cat. 16
The estate’s catalogue raisonné is the authority on titles, dimensions and authenticity — see ljuba.fr.
Mythic and mannerist · 1976 — 1979
Mannerist anamorphosis enters in earnest, by way of Jurgis Baltrušaitis. The Frazer triptych (1976–79, roughly 260 × 400 cm) was painted for the Sava Congress Centre in Belgrade and opened the 2019 SANU retrospective out of chronological order — the one break in an otherwise strictly sequential hang.
Also from this period