56. Act

This excellently painted Nude of intimate dimensions has a brilliant history. It was included in the anthology exhibition Half a Century of Croatian Art organized by the Croatian Society of Art in 1938, in the Meštrović Pavilion in Zagreb (today the Home of Croatian Fine Artists). In the accompanying exhibition catalog, the painting is reproduced on page 55. It was an exhibition that brimmed with first-class works of Croatian painters, sculptors, graphic artists and architects, and among more than three hundred exhibits, Mujadžić's Nude won the audience and critics who in their reviews unanimously emphasized that it is a first-class achievement. Composed in the quietest painterly valerians and with a minimal gesture, the image of the Nude belongs to the author's pre-war creative period during which he broke into the top of painting production at that time in Zagreb and in 1931 became a professor of painting at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, where he himself matured into a painter. Namely, Mujadžić came to Zagreb from his native Bosanska Gradiška at the age of sixteen in order to be able to educate himself artistically. He first attended the Higher School of Art and Craft and then the Fine Arts Academy, where he graduated in 1924. Having received a scholarship from the French government, he perfected his art in Paris for a year and returned to Zagreb and the Fine Art Academy at the end of 1926, where during the next 42 years of teaching work, with much understanding and patience, he taught young generations of students of the Painting Department. BRP

Dimensions

width 40 cm, height 32.5 cm

Description

oil on canvas on cardboard, signed lower left, in green, "Mujadžić"

Research information

The work was exhibited at the "Half a Century of Croatian Art" exhibition in the Meštrović Pavilion in 1938, and was reproduced in the exhibition catalog on page 55.

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