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The greatest painter that Dubrovnik (and arguably Croatia) has ever produced is unquestionably Vlaho Bukovac, the Cavtat innkeeperu2019s son who went on to become artistic hot property in Paris, London and Prague.
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The birthplace of Vlaho Bukovac, one of the most famous Croatian painters and founders of the modern Croatian painting, has been reopened to the public since May 2004, after a ten-year break and a fundamental three year-long refurbishment
Vlaho Bukovac (Italian: Biagio Faggioni) Born 5 July 1855. Cavtat, Austria-Hungary (today's Croatia) Died 23 April 1922 (aged 66) Prague, Czechoslovakia
In 1894 Vlaho Bukovac produced the large painting Gundulic’s Dream, based on the epic patriotic poem Osman by Ivan Gundulic, which describes the contrasts between Christianity and Islam, and Eastern and Western Europe – an issue that was as topical then as it is today. This established his name both at home and throughout Europe, thanks to the painting’s success at the Venice Biennale. Having illustrated the ‘nation’s favourite song’, he soon came to be regarded as the pride of Croatia Gundulić's dream by Vlaho Bukovac, 1894
Portrait of Miss Berger, 1897 Modern Gallery, Zagreb
Summer 1898 Youth
This year (2018), the Gallery Klovićevi Dvori from Zagreb and House Bukovac in Cavtat opened the first of three planned exhibitions on Vlaho Bukovac. Their intent is to present the three most significant periods of Bukovac's creation: Paris, Zagreb and Prague, through three separate exhibitions. The first exhibition is the formative presentation of the Bukovac period “that we associate with the period of his stay in Paris where he reached a striking climb and for a short time he counted on the line of creations of the artistic events of the then Europe", says the author of the exhibition Petar Vugrinec. The exhibition included a total of 130 works from all over Europe: from Great Britain, where Bukovac was a painting star, portraits of Laure Le doux and portraits of Samson Fox, France, Slovenia, Serbia, Vojvodina and Montenegro arrived, and the special attraction of the exhibition is the monumental composition of Jesus is a friend of the little ones from the Franciscan monastery church in Tomislavgradu, with an impressive dimension of 3 x 4.40 m, which was rewarded at the Paris Salon in 1888.
Xavier Šandor Gjalski, Zagreb, 1894
Portrait of Baroness Ivka Vranyczany, 1893 Modern Gallery, Zagreb Portrait of a lady, 1903 Gallery Aluminij - Mostar
A pensive moment Daydreams 1905
With his painting La Grande Iza, Vlaho Bukovac started exhibiting his series of magnificent nudes at the Paris Salon in 1882. The canvas of the young and still unknown artist, who had not been noticed by critics earlier, generated considerable interest from the press, so that the street vendors were shouting “Le clou du Salon! La Grande Iza par Bukovac!”, and the photographic reproduction of this painting sold thousands of copies. Inspired by Alexis Bouvier’s popular pulp novel from 1879 about a famous courtesan with the same title, the painting was produced in the style of Manet’s Olympia
Mid-Summer, 1903 © Belvedere, Vienna The bather 1917
At the riverbank 1908 Art Gallery Split
Parrot Modern Gallery Zagreb
White Slave, 1909 Royal Palace of Serbia In the Bath 1908
Pink Dream, 1916 Royal Palace of Serbia
Nude 1900
Bukovac House in Cavtat Girl with veil and roses Gallery of Art Prague
Icarus 1897 Modern Gallery Zagreb
Queen of life, 1915 Toilette 1894 Sofia National Art Gallery
Before the Mirror 1914 Prague Realized price EUR 32,020 Palais Dorotheum Vienna 2012
Reclining nude, 1915 Turkish Women in Harem, c. 1877 Reclining female nude 1897
Two Girls After Bathing, 1890 Nudo di donna con grappolo d'uva, Paris 1892
Nudo di donna in un interno1890 Envy destroys fairness
? Portrait of Jessica his daughter
Daughter Jelica painting the fall of Icarus 1921 Young Female Artist 1914 Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik
