1960s Signed Lithograph by Georgi Daskaloff

Georgi Daskaloff was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and attended the art school at Sofia University, graduating in 1949. He defected to the West in 1960, living in Paris before moving on to New York. Daskaloff painted in the 1960s and 1970s in a pop-art influenced abstract figurative style using bright colors. He showed widely, having solo exhibitions in Copenhagen, Brussels, New York and Geneva as well as at Galerie Jacques Massol in Paris in 1968 and London’s Ewan Philips Gallery in 1969. Daskaloff’s work is held in several public collections, including the British Museum, Joslyn Memorial Gallery in Omaha and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.