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UnknownOlja Ivanjicki "Florence or Hell of l'Inconnue De La Seine" Oil Painting c.19651965
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Olja Ivanjicki "Florence or Hell of l'Inconnue De La Seine" original oil circa 1965
Original oil on board. Dimensions 26" wide x 42" high.
The frame measures 30" wide x 46" high.
Signed and dated at the upper border. She has auction results over $9,000 which was earlier in 2021.
Olga Ivanjicki, the daughter of Russian emigrants was born in Pancevo, Danube Banovina. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, graduated in 1957, and in the same year she was the only woman among the founders of MEDIALA Belgrade, an art group of painters, writers and architects such as Leonid Šejka, Vladimir Velickovic, Ljubomir Popovic, Miodrag Ðuric. In 1962, she received a scholarship of the Ford Foundation to pursue her art studies in the United States, and in 1978 she was a selected artist of the Fulbright program Artist in Residence at the Rhode Island School of Design.
She had over ninety individual exhibitions and participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. Ivanjicki’s painting was influenced by Symbolism, Surrealism, Pop art and Fantastic art. In the course of her career, the artist received the Vuk Lifetime Achievement Award (Vukova nagrada, 1988), the Seventh of July Award (Sedmojulska nagrada, 1988) and the Karic Award.
L'Inconnue de la Seine (English: The Unknown Woman of the Seine) was an unidentified young woman whose putative death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900. Her visage inspired numerous literary works. In the United States, the mask is also known as "La Belle Italienne".
- Creation Year:1965
- Dimensions:Height: 46 in (116.84 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU137826155682
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