Retrospective exhibition

The retrospective exhibit « LJUBA, 1934 – 2016 » will be held at the Serbian Science and Arts Academy,
from September 4th until October 20th 2019, in Belgrade, St Knez Mihajlova 35

Forty five artworks will be presented to the public, mainly bigger formats. Special attention will be given to the triptych “Hommage à Sir James George Frazer”, 1976-1978, 260x800cm

SANU exposition Ljuba

Major painting found

Thanks to ljuba.fr, several artworks from Ljuba have been found.
The latest one on the list: a painting called “Birth of an idiot” (oil on canvas, 137x176cm), from 1959.
The painting was painted during Ljuba’s last year of studies at the academy of fine arts, in Belgrade. Just leaving for Paris in 1963, Ljuba had left the painting in a cinema club. It is his friend, Slobodan Jevtić Pulika, who brought it to Paris a year and a half later. Marcel Zerbib, the gallery owner with whom Ljuba was working at that time, sold it promptly to an admirer. This person kept it for more than fifty years, until his death. Today, the painting belongs to a Parisian collection.

The artwork can now be admired in the 1957-62 gallery of the website.

La naissance d'un idiot, 1959, Ljuba Popovic

Exhibit at the Academy of Science and Fine Arts in Belgrade

A succession of difficulties and misunderstandings have been,until now, postponing a great retrospective of Ljuba’s works at the Academy of Science and Fine Arts in Belgrade.
It is with great pleasure that we can announce today that this exhibit will finally take place in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Large format paintings, from all Ljuba periods, will be shown.

La Coupole (“The Dome”), 1964

A major Ljuba painting, “La Coupole” from the year 1964 (oil on canvas;150x130cm), will go on sale at “Hôtel Drouot”, on December the 12h 2018. This painting has never been presented before.
It can be found in the monography “Ljuba”, Alpine Fine Arts, 1980.
The first owner of this painting was a famous french actor, friend of surrealists and André Breton.

Gallery 1963-70 was updated with the painting

La coupole, 1964, Ljuba Popovic
La coupole, 1964, Ljuba Popovic

New content

After summer break, Ljuba’s website gets new images and new content. Chronology gets richer with the end of studies and the military service in Bileća.

Website creation

Website www.Ljuba.fr was created and hosted online. This website will be maintainted by LJUBA’s family members in order to provide visitors with the highest quality / proofread content on the artist.

Hope you will enjoy following us, as the website gets richer content over the next months.

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Atelier odessa
Atelier LJUBA - Odessa 1975