Author: Alexander Petrov "Lavender"

Technique: Pastel pencils on paper

Dimensions: 25 x 21 cm

Signed lower right

Alexander Petrov is one of the authors who shaped the image of Bulgarian art in the second half of the 20th century. His painting combines sintered plasticity of the image with the national spirit and theme, especially characteristic of our art since the 1960s. The artist was born in 1916 in the Varna village of Nevsha in the family of a railway worker. In 1934 he graduated from high school in Stara Zagora. A year later he was admitted to the Academy of Arts, majoring in Painting under Professor Boris Mitov. After graduating in 1940, he began exhibiting as a guest in the salons of the Society of New Artists, and from 1943 - as a regular member. After the events of September 1944, he went to the front as a volunteer war artist. He created a large number of drawings for front-line and central newspapers. In 1948, his painting "Landing on the Drava" was included in the Bulgarian exhibition of The Venice Biennale . Throughout his work, Alexander Petrov worked on the understanding and synthesis between Bulgarian plastic culture and Western European art. In 1960, he traveled to Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, where he created the cycle "Central Asia". In the late 1960s, the artist visited the Karlovo village of Bogdan. Inspired by the Rose Valley, he created one of his large cycles - "Rose Picking". The main themes in his work are labor, love, motherhood, the sea. The theme of picking lavender became his emblem and his colleagues called him Alexander Petrov - Lavender . From his repeated trips to Paris, the artist brought back numerous drawings, sketches, watercolors. -Suzana Karanfilova

Author

• Alexander Petrov - The Lavender

Technique

• Pastel

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