Ljuba Popović Painter · 1934—2016
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Phantoms of the Attic

Date
1958
Medium
Oil on canvas
Period
Belgrade, burnt umber, 1957 — 1962

An early Belgrade canvas: human figures held in an airless space, worked almost entirely in burnt umber.

The estate’s catalogue raisonné is the authority on titles, dimensions and authenticity — see ljuba.fr.

Belgrade, burnt umber · 1957 — 1962

The Academy years and their aftermath. Figures crowd shallow, airless rooms in a palette narrowed almost to a single earth. Phantoms of the Attic (1958) and The Pilgrims of Emmaus (1960–62) close the period; the second is generally read as its climax.

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