Zwei Fischer by Mijo Kovacic
Mijo Kovacic
Zwei Fischer
1978 (sale records indicate work created in 1974, but artist dated as 1978)
Oil on glass
Framed: 38 ¾ x 42 ½ in
Image: 32 ½ x 36 ¼ in
Condition: Good with 2 small losses
Provenance: With the artist; Blagoje Masic [Frankfurt, prior to 1990]; Walter McCarthy [Frankfurt, later United States, June 1990]; Private collection by descent from above, 2023
Through tales of his mother, Mijo Kovacic developed already in his childhood a penchant for imaginative motifs. Influenced by the works of the Netherlands old masters, the self-taught turns to the naïve painting, which enjoyed great popularity during the post-war period in Croatia. In 1954, at the age of 19 years, Kovacic exhibits for the first time his works in a group exhibition. Since that time his paintings can be found on numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Important for him was the encounter with Grgo Gamulin, an art theorist without prejudice towards naive art. He wrote the first monograph of Kovacic’s work, 2 more should follow up until the 1990s.
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