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50. Dentist's Wife from Gajeva
1886, Slavonski Brod - 1954, Zagreb
Estimate
Pretul de pornire si cel estimat nu sunt preturi de vanzare efective
EUR 7.000 - 10.000
Session
Wed, 10 December 2025 20:00
Croatian painter, reporter, and photographer Vladimir Becić (Slavonski Brod, 1886 – Zagreb, 1954) is one of the finest representatives of modern Croatian painting. He attended the painting school of M. Cl. Crnčić and B. Čikoš Sesia, while simultaneously studying law. He then perfected his skills in Munich and Paris. With J. Račić, M. Kraljević, and O. Herman, he formed the so-called Munich circle, which turned the Croatian art scene towards modernism. He formed the Group of Three with Lj. Babić and J. Miša. He taught at the Zagreb Academy. Initially, he painted realistically and also worked as a draftsman for magazines. He painted motifs from nature, female nudes in everyday life. With the discovery of Paul Cézanne, Becić accepted the modern expression. During the First World War, he worked as a war painter and published a series of photographs, and at that time also created drawings, watercolors, graphics, and oils of the war cycle. In the mid-1920s, he turned to neoclassicism - he depicted monumental female figures and acts, landscapes, still life with a subdued palette of colors, without a visible stroke, smooth surfaces. Soon, he opens the composition, softens the forms and introduces color into his works. He begins to transfer the southern landscape and genre scenes of peasant and fisherman characters onto the canvas. During the Second World War, Becić remained in Zagreb and painted his surroundings - Samobor, Čučerje. Becić often returned to portraits and depicted people without excessive idealization, with deep psychologization. The characters appear collected, calm, restrained. This enhances the depicted oil on canvas created in 1930. Becić's mature style is characterized by the figure of a woman in a sitting position, built with soft, wide, but assured brush strokes. The color is subdued, dominated by dark green, brown, and ochre tones. The woman's face is calm, her gaze directly at the viewer, but not at all aggressive, rather quiet and thoughtful. Becić's confidence in drawing is visible in the precise construction of the head and hands, proving himself as a professional portraitist.
Dimensions
width 85 cm, height 106 cm
Description
oil on canvas
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Detalii
Croatian painter, reporter, and photographer Vladimir Becić (Slavonski Brod, 1886 – Zagreb, 1954) is one of the finest representatives of modern Croatian painting. He attended the painting school of M. Cl. Crnčić and B. Čikoš Sesia, while simultaneously studying law. He then perfected his skills in Munich and Paris. With J. Račić, M. Kraljević, and O. Herman, he formed the so-called Munich circle, which turned the Croatian art scene towards modernism. He formed the Group of Three with Lj. Babić and J. Miša. He taught at the Zagreb Academy. Initially, he painted realistically and also worked as a draftsman for magazines. He painted motifs from nature, female nudes in everyday life. With the discovery of Paul Cézanne, Becić accepted the modern expression. During the First World War, he worked as a war painter and published a series of photographs, and at that time also created drawings, watercolors, graphics, and oils of the war cycle. In the mid-1920s, he turned to neoclassicism - he depicted monumental female figures and acts, landscapes, still life with a subdued palette of colors, without a visible stroke, smooth surfaces. Soon, he opens the composition, softens the forms and introduces color into his works. He begins to transfer the southern landscape and genre scenes of peasant and fisherman characters onto the canvas. During the Second World War, Becić remained in Zagreb and painted his surroundings - Samobor, Čučerje. Becić often returned to portraits and depicted people without excessive idealization, with deep psychologization. The characters appear collected, calm, restrained. This enhances the depicted oil on canvas created in 1930. Becić's mature style is characterized by the figure of a woman in a sitting position, built with soft, wide, but assured brush strokes. The color is subdued, dominated by dark green, brown, and ochre tones. The woman's face is calm, her gaze directly at the viewer, but not at all aggressive, rather quiet and thoughtful. Becić's confidence in drawing is visible in the precise construction of the head and hands, proving himself as a professional portraitist.
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