a self portrait of Milan Konjovic, from 1917
Sombor is also the birthplace of Milan Konjovic, a prolific Serbian painter who lived from 1898 to 1993. Konjovic spent some ten years abroad in the 1920s, to study, but quickly returned to Sombor again, where he lived for most of the rest of his life. Some 500 of the approximately 6000 works he created, he donated to the local museum. Which produces a really nice overview of his career, from colourful Expressionism through ‘blue’, ‘red’ and ‘grey’ periods, to a later phase of almost abstract, but equally colourful, work. The type of paintings and pastels we like.
an overview of one of the rooms in the museum
A small selection:
a painting of the vllage Cassis, called ‘Blue Cassis’ (1929, oil on canvas)
‘Odalisque’ (1940, oil on canvas)
‘Uncle Ljuba’ (1941, tempera on paper?)
‘Baby’s Boudoir’ (oil on cardboard)
and a more recent painting, ‘Konavljanin’ (1972, oil on hardboard)
‘At the Three Hats’ (1954, oil on hardboard)
and even more recent, ‘Half-Nude’ (1990, watercolour and ink on paper)
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