Exhibition "Searching for Blaise -
Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) and his Northern Patrons"
opened at Bonham's in London
After Liverpool and Harrogate, the exhibition "Vlaho Bukovac and his Northern Patrons", opened at Bonham's in London, in the central gallery of this prestigious auction house at 101 New Bond Street. The exhibition was opened by Mr Joško Paro, Croatian Ambassador, Mrs Caroline Oliphant, Director of the Paintings Department and the famous British actor Mr Edward Fox, whose grandfather Samson Fox was one of the great admirers of Bukovac's paintings and a distinguished patron.
Exhibition "Searching for Blaise -
Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) and his Northern Patrons"
opened at Bonham's in London
After Liverpool and Harrogate, the exhibition "Vlaho Bukovac and his Northern Patrons", opened at Bonham's in London, in the central gallery of this prestigious auction house at 101 New Bond Street. The exhibition was opened by Mr Joško Paro, Croatian Ambassador, Mrs Caroline Oliphant, Director of the Paintings Department and the famous British actor Mr Edward Fox, whose grandfather Samson Fox was one of the great admirers of Bukovac's paintings and a distinguished patron.
Bukovac made Samson Fox's portrait at the time when Fox was the mayor of Harrogate and it is one of the best portraits on display. The exhibition has an intimate character but it has succeeded in renewing the interest in Bukovac in Great Britain as a cosmopolitan and internationally renowned artist. It has also succeeded in instigating the search for Bukovac's paintings, especially portraits that he did on several his longer periods in England and which have gone missing since the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to ten paintings left after the death of Bukovac's patrons, families Le Doux and Fox, also exhibited are ten paintings that Zorica, Lady Glen, Bukovac's granddaughter, had left to the Bukovac Collection in Cavtat as well as a painting recently discovered in New York, which is going to be auctioned at Bonham's on 13th June 2006.
Marina Desin, curator of the museum in Cavtat, came over specifically for the evening. She is going to take the paintings from the Glen Collection and organise their transfer to Cavtat, together with the International Trust for Croatian Monuments, which has taken the Collection temporarily before its transportation. The founder of the Trust is Jadranka, Lady Beresford-Peirse, who has both initiated and organised these Bukovac exhibitions with the help of the Croatian Embassy in London.
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