✿ Vlaho BUKOVAC (1855-1922) ✿

Comincia con te
il paradisiaco pensiero
Guardami...
se finalmente mi guarderai un giorno
Parlami
Amami
dipingimi ancora
col sapore dell'infinito...

~ Catherine La Rose ~
tratto da "Mentre le stelle stanno a guardare"

Risveglio, 1908

  femminile, 1922

(A Flower) Une Fleur - Reclining , 1900

(A Flower) Une Fleur - Reclining , 1900 (detail)

Queen of life, 1915 (detail)

Queen of life, 1915

The Fall of Icarus, 1898

Magdalena, 1898

Andromeda, before 1918

Adam and Eve, 1885

beauty in a garden,  1900

femminile, 1890

Roza wide, 1900

(Dream) Sogno, 1903

uomo, 1921

White slave, 1884

Marmo torso,  1880

Girl with headscarf, 1918

Ljeto, 1898

Roza wide, 1900

La Grande Iza, 1882 (detail)

Koketa, 1908

On the shore, 1900

In the bath,  1908

  1900

Turkish Women in Harem, c. 1877 (detail)

Turkish Women in Harem, c. 1877

The Fall of Icarus, 1898

Daedalus and Icarus, 1898

Andromeda

Spring, 1898

The bather, 1917

Reclining , 1897

 Figure with a bunch of flowers

Gundulic's Dream, 1894

 Donna allo specchio, 1914

Studio di Icaro

In the boudoir

The Toast, 1900

The Pharaoh's Favorite

Mythological Scene with Huntress by the Sea, copy after Francois Boucher

La Grande Iza, 1882 (detail)

La Grande Iza, 1882 (detail)

La Grande Iza, 1882

Gundulic's Dream, 1894

An Allegory

Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) was a Croatian painter. His life and work were eclectic, for the artist pursued his career in a variety of locales and his style changed greatly over the course of that career. He is probably best known for his 1887 nude Une fleur (A Flower), which he created during his French period and which received attention in various reviews and publications during his lifetime.Was born as Biagio Faggioni in the town of Cavtat south of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia. His father was an Italian from Genoa, while his mother was of Croatian descent
He showed inclination to drawing in his early childhood, but because of his family's poverty he could not continue his education. At the age of eleven his uncle took him to the United States, where he spent four hard years. His uncle soon died. In 1871, he returned to Dubrovnik and embarked as an apprentice on a merchant ship that sailed on regular line Istanbul- Odessa-Liverpool.
In 1873 he went to Latin America, where he worked as a letter drawer in a coach factory in Peru. Three years later he returned to Cavtat. He found a sponsor in the person of Medo Pucic, a poet who recommended him to the archbishop Strossmayer, a very famous and influential Croatian at that time. In 1877 he presented Strossmayer the painting Turkinja u haremu (Turkish woman in harem). Thanks to Strossmayer's financial support and his own savings he made it to Paris in 1877, where he entered the École des Beaux Arts. His teacher was Alexandre Cabanel. He finished his education in 1880.
Bukovac appeared in public as a painter on the Salon de Paris in 1878.