{"id":8432,"date":"2022-04-19T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/?p=8432"},"modified":"2022-04-19T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T01:00:32","slug":"bogoljub-boba-jovanovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/en\/bogoljub-boba-jovanovic\/","title":{"rendered":"BOGOLJUB BOBA JOVANOVI\u0106"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kpqsvx7c-cecf1aae061520806d9b33a9c5ce33d0\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kpqsvx7c-cecf1aae061520806d9b33a9c5ce33d0 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kpqsvx7c-cecf1aae061520806d9b33a9c5ce33d0 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kpqsvx7c-cecf1aae061520806d9b33a9c5ce33d0 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_layout_row  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-6344 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-6344 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/zeptermuzej.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1-1.jpg\" alt='' title='1'  height=\"480\" width=\"360\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av-layout-grid-1'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-145098-81142c67ee4e07e7b47b2dd7af6d57dc entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_image  avia-builder-el-last  grid-row-not-first  container_wrap sidebar_right'  >\n<div class='flex_cell av-342x0-573d092b10da78219aa23e09b501e5f1 av-gridrow-cell av_one_fifth no_margin  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_cell_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2or7w-00a529e3bbb83d9959896d5fd0970073\">\n.flex_cell.av-2or7w-00a529e3bbb83d9959896d5fd0970073{\nvertical-align:top;\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-2or7w-00a529e3bbb83d9959896d5fd0970073{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-2or7w-00a529e3bbb83d9959896d5fd0970073 av-gridrow-cell av_three_fifth no_margin  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_cell_one_fifth  el_before_av_cell_one_fifth  content-align-top'  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kpqsg7qh-b526648b1103b495bff29ebcd07dcdfb '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BOGOLJUB BOBA JOVANOVI\u0106<\/strong><br \/>\nNotes from his life and work<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bogoljub\u2019s great-grandfather was a Czech, Jan Smetivi, a carpenter by profession[1], originally from Bohdane\u010d[2].Weary of the difficult life in Austro-Hungarian monarchy, he started for America, like so many others. He never reached America, but from Slovenia, where he unexpectedly found himself, he went to Belgrade. For him, Serbia was a free country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In today\u2019s Nemanjina Street, number 34,[3]\u00a0he had a cottage built. Himself an eccentric, as his great-grandson tells, Jan was married to Katarina and had a son Bohumil and a daughter Bo\u017eena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bohumil (1839-1924), Boba\u2019s grandfather, was twelve years of age when his parents arrived in Belgrade. Having finished his schooling in Belgrade, Bohumil became an expert in statistics and the founder of modern statistics in this country. He worked as a statistician in the Ministry of Education and was director of the State Statistic Administration in Serbia. He wrote a number of works both in Serbian and German. A Catholic by his father\u2019s faith, Bohumil converted to Orthodox religion and received a new name \u2013 Bogoljub \u2013 and a new surname \u2013 Jovanovi\u0107, derived from Jan. With his wife Emilija[4], ne\u00e9 Dimi\u0107, a Serbian girl from Novi Sad, former professor of French in the high-school of Kragujevac, he had a daughter, Milica, and two sons, Dragoslav (1886-1939) and Branko. In 1906, in the vicinity of his father\u2019s cottage he had a house built for his family, but larger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Boba\u2019s father, Dragoslav, graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1911 and was immediately elected Teaching Assistant.[5]\u00a0His doctoral dissertation, which he defended in March 1923, was printed under the title \u201cThe Concept of Law in the\u00a0<em>Geca Kon<\/em>\u00a0Publishing House\u201d. He was a university professor and one of the most progressive Rectors of Belgrade University (1936\/37-1938\/39). \u201eI heard he was called \u2019the students\u2019 guardian angel\u2019. He used to protect many left oriented students and was a favourite professor.\u201c[6]Let us add that Dragoslav did not only protect the so called \u201eprogressive\u201c students, but even those who belonged to the fascists of Dimitrije Ljoti\u0107. For him, each student was a student. There is still in Belgrade the street named after Dragoslav Jovanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In his marriage with Milica, a Serbian girl from Bijeljina, he had two sons and a daughter. The elder son, Bogoljub (1924), was named after his grandfather, the younger was Desimir, nicknamed Beka, and the daughter Emilija. For his family, he had a three-storey house built in 1927 within the complex of the previously built two houses. The family stayed in that house after the premature death of Boba\u2019s father and Boba lives in it today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201eFather\u2019s death[7]\u00a0was not just a loss and a blow for the family\u201c, Boba would say, \u201ebut also the end of an epoch \u2013 the Second World War was beginning.\u201c[8]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201eThe loss of his father\u201c, remarks his daughter[9], \u201eat a young age was hard to deal with and influenced him in many ways, I can see a lot of that darkness, fear and nightmare in his painting. \u00a0And then there is also the wonder, mystery and beauty that can be found. It\u2019s a shame not all his works survived, and he has had other losses in his life, but that is the ephemeral nature of this world as well and in spite of or because of that, the artist shares that beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reminiscences of the now rare remaining friends and contemporaries of our painter help us at least to complete parts of the mosaic of the complex and interesting life of the mysterious Bogoljub Jovanovi\u0107. Mrs Branka Anti\u0107[10]\u00a0writes the following in a letter sent from Paris[11]: \u201cI think I met Boba Jovanovi\u0107 when we were eleven or twelve years of age, e.g. when we moved to the house in 36 Nemanjina Street as Boba\u2019s first neighbours. He was a good friend of my late cousin Pera Petrovi\u0107, brother of Sa\u0161a Petrovi\u0107[12]. We used to see each other very often.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I did not know his father, he had died before we became friends. His uncle was a strange man, always alone, a recluse, but he would greet us with respect whenever we met.[13]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boba\u2019s mother, Mrs Jovanovi\u0107, was a friendly and cheerful woman and it was a pleasure to talk to her. When she was young, she had opened a bookshop with her friend from Bosnia who later married a friend of Boba\u2019s father (Sima Markovi\u0107) who took her with him to the Soviet Union. Boba\u2019s father met his future wife in that bookshop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boba\u2019s brother Beka[14], four years younger, was Sa\u0161a\u2019s best friend and the best man at Sa\u0161a\u2019s wedding. He seemed a well brought-up young man with quite normal behaviour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the summer we frequently went swimming in the Sava, the whole company together. Boba often took along his sister Mila[15], several years his junior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Towards the end of the occupation, during the allied bombing of the country, his family left Belgrade and went to a village. Pera visited them and told us later that Boba simulated madness and insanity so that the Dra\u017ea Mihailovi\u0107\u2019s\u00a0<em>chetniks<\/em>\u00a0would not draft him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was not sure what to study, art or technical science. Before he went to the Academy, his mother took his drawings to renowned painters to see if he was talented enough; their appraisal was most favourable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He chose painting, enrolled the Academy of Fine Arts in 1943 and graduated in 1949. His professors were Mihailo Petrov, Marko \u010celebonovi\u0107, Nedeljko Gvozdenovi\u0107, Ivan Tabakovi\u0107. During the studies he was very close to Aleksandar Jeremi\u0107 Cibe, who was his friend in private life as well. Cibe\u2019s great friend was Ivan Prvan[16]. When Boba and Cibe met at the Academy they found out they lived in the neighbourhood and frequently went to classes together. They used to walk to the Academy and played different tricks on the way. The two of them came from different social milieus but it did not prevent them from going together with a group of young men to the house of Bora Gruji\u0107, the painter and a great connoisseur of classical music. They listened to music there, made parties and talked a lot. Other visitors were Mileta and Krsta Andrejevi\u0107, Neboj\u0161a Mitri\u0107, Vasa[17]\u00a0Mihi\u0107, Cibe. Mileta brought Boba along.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAs a young man\u201d, wrote Mrs Anti\u0107, \u201che was of leftist orientation, but not nowadays. He adores everything American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cHe liked to watch Russian films after the war to see what life was like there.\u201d He took part in the voluntary labour activities in building the \u0160amac-Sarajevo railroad, went to monasteries on excursions organised by the Academy, and on his own to Skopje and the surrounding area. He stayed with some relatives there[18], climbed to Vodno, drew Nerezi and the surroundings. On his way to Nerezi he came upon a soldier who was guarding Tito\u2019s villa and upon the swimming-pool where some children were swimming. Since he was very fond of water[19], he jumped into the pool and nearly died. He ran against some rods in the water. Having had his bath and spared his life, he arrived in the monastery. There were guards there as well, but he was allowed to draw and make watercolours, the very purpose of his adventure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Several years after graduation Boba decided to go to Paris, in order to broaden his views. In 1953, he obtained a passport and left for Paris, at the same time as Cibe and arrived there when Bernard Buffet was a star. Bogoljub was not interested \u2013 he had left something like that in his own country. Petar Om\u010dikus, Kosa Bok\u0161an, Milorad Bata Mihailovi\u0107 and Ljubinka Jovanovi\u0107 Mihailovi\u0107 were already in Paris. Life there was neither easy nor simple. In order to live, painters used to take on various assignments. Nalard, also a painter, used to evaluate Serbian painters. Bogoljub did not like him although Nalard invited him to exhibit at one of the salons. Jovanovi\u0107 refused the offer believing that what he was doing was quite personal and did not interest anyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Weary of life in Paris, Cibe and Boba decided to move on. Cibe returned to Belgrade while Bogoljub, after marrying Jasmina[20]\u00a0who had arrived from Belgrade soon after him, and after the birth of daughter Emilija[21], left for New York in 1960. Their other daughter, Elena[22]\u00a0was soon born in America. According to his own report, he packed all his drawings into a big and heavy roll, carried it with some friends and threw it in the water, or on a meadow, he could not precisely remember. However, he did leave something with Bata Mihailovi\u0107, the painter, in Meudon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After arrival in America, the couple rented a one storey house on West 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Street and lived there until 1970. They used one floor for living and on the other Bogoljub had his studio. The artist was free to do what he wanted. He told me[23]\u00a0that he would mount a frame across a wall and stretched a big canvas over it, which he cut as needed. Sometimes he would paint first and then cut the canvas. He made frames for his paintings himself and that gave him much pleasure. When the family split, they left the rented house. Jasmina and the daughters first lived in a rented house in Manhattan, then bought a house in New Jersey where they lived until the end of her life.[24]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Jovanovi\u0107 told me he then bought a house above the 200<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Dykman Street under very favourable conditions. In a letter[25]\u00a0to his friend the painter, Cibe, Boba wrote in March 1971 that he had recently moved to \u201ca new address[26]\u00a0under the conditions I do not want to elaborate now, but will speak about that when we see each other\u201d. The space he moved in was not adequate for big canvases. In order to continue painting, he began to work on papers of various dimensions, using wax and coloured ink[27]. When he decided to move to Belgrade and spend the better part of the year there, he gave the house to his former wife on the condition that she rented the upper floor and paid the credit. It was then agreed that Boba could stay in the fully equipped basement when he came to New York. Everything went well until it was decided that the house should be sold: Jovanovi\u0107 no longer had proper lodgings when he was in America. The painter stored about fifteen big paintings in Jasmina\u2019s house in New Jersey, but when she died, their daughters sold the house and the paintings are lost from then on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Although he preferred the East coast of the country, he had to go to California on his future visits to America, and stay with Prvan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The various jobs he did in New York provided him with enough means to live, stay engaged in art and dedicate the rest of time to \u2013 playing chess. According to him, he first went to Central Park where chess was played at a particular spot when the weather was fine. In winter, chess was played in the neighbouring pavilion which was also a shelter for the homeless. When he could no longer stand that, Bogoljub discovered a space, a long room on 72<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Street whose owner was a certain Charley Hidalgo[28]. People used to come there to drink coffee and pass the time, play chess or cards. A casino was on the upper floor. On one occasion some people passed by, went up the stairs and left very quickly. It came out that they were former card players, armed with pistols and had come to pick up the money. Boba says it happened only once. When Charley, a chess grand master, died in 1982, the company moved to another place on the same street, also with a casino; the owner was a money-lender and asked for exorbitant interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Although he did not live with his daughters after the divorce, Bogoljub was a caring father but still his daughter Emilija writes the following: \u201cIn my view he has always been first an artist (an observer and chronicler of the human condition) and other things were secondary to that (father, husband, friend, employee, etc.). His work always inspired strong opinions from\u00a0<em>bezveza<\/em>\u00a0(sp?) to compelling.\u00a0This dichotomy is very interesting\u201d.[29]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBoba was always an odd character\u201d, wrote Mrs Anti\u0107[30], \u201che rarely opened, and Branka Petrovi\u0107[31]\u00a0told us recently that she was afraid to approach him when she was young. He changed only in his advanced age, became sociable, nice, open and accessible. It was much easier to be friends with him, he was pleasant, sociable and even he himself wanted to meet us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0After his journeys to Paris and then New York, Bogoljub came to Belgrade for the first time in 1967. He felt somehow like a tourist in the town of his birth and wrote to his friend Cibe after returning to New York, then his permanent abode: \u201cIt was nice to be a tourist in a strange country where you know the language. This sensation was supported by the weather and my stay in your studio. I should have thanked you long ago, your studio meant a world to me. I never thought I would find in Beogr. such an idiotic situation that even Mrs Mica was living in my studio. I did not even see the room where I \u2018had lived\u2019 fourteen years ago. Belgrade had not changed at all.\u201d[32]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Returning to the country almost every year and mostly in the summer, he stayed in Belgrade, but also thought of going to the seaside. In a letter to his friend Cibe[33]\u00a0he wrote: \u201c&#8230;I thought I would write earlier, but the circumstances prevented me and all the better for it because I did not have anything to tell you before. Now I know that I shall appear in Belgrade in mid-August \u2013 if not prevented by something else. If I had money I would go to Dubrovnik. I have been thinking these last years of going somewhere, to an island, to spend ten days there, in mediation and preparation of big works. But then, in the last moment, I would change my mind fearing that I would be bored or that I would arrive at a terrible beach and ruin the few days at the seaside. Dubrovnik therefore seems the best solution and I leave islands for later when I may have \u2018more time\u2019. Perhaps it will be now. Perhaps I shall stay for six months there when I come in August. It does not depend on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jovanovi\u0107 came even twice a year to see his mother and sister. When mother died in 1982 Boba decided two or\u00a0three years later\u00a0to move back to Belgrade definitely and take care of his sister Emilija and their possessions, parts of which he had to retrieve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWhen she was a young girl, Mila (Emilija) was quiet, shy, fragile, a romantic. She studied music, piano.\u201d[34]\u00a0She fell ill later and mother took care of her until Bogoljub returned to Belgrade. To the end of her life[35]\u00a0\u201cthey lived together. She took care of the house, they entertained friends and he went on holidays with her. She began to play again as if her memory from the young age was intact\u201d. She went to concerts and the opera because Boba liked music and had taken piano lessons in childhood. There is still a big concert piano in his flat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Although in advanced age, Bogoljub Jovanovi\u0107 goes to America almost every year. His last year\u2019s trip in the early months of 2015 was in a way a journey into uncertainty. Although he responded to e-mail messages almost regularly there were moments without any news from him. Worried, I sent him an e-mail letter: \u201cDear Boba, not a word from you. It would be nice if you could write; we are eager to see you again in Belgrade. The book is progressing well and only you are missing. Kisses from Ivana.\u201d[36]\u00a0Then Bogoljub replied[37]: \u201cDear Ivana, you really know how to make one happy and needed. I have been much troubled with thoughts of the future lately (immediate, of course); future was infinitely uncertain, the present misty and puzzling and that was the reason I postponed my return to Belgrade. I have postponed it for\u00a0May 6, the month of flowers, spring and the most beautiful promises. I am not easily embarrassed; they took my blood today, and I will soon be confronted with a CatScan and a vague future. Fortunately, future does not exist, the past has passed, there is only an evasive present which the vertiginous time is spilling from our hands and taking it away,\u00a0<em>flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He had an operation and returned to Belgrade recuperated; our meetings and conversations were continued. However, yet another e-mail arrived from America: \u201c&#8230;Your questions strike where I do not want them to, I, a man who would like to squeeze through life like a dog through wet grass, to hide, not to show, now in my old age when there is only one little bit left to be endured \u2013 but, no, no way, there is Nemesis, Ivana, everything must come to light. There should be no secret under the sun. Signed: Evn Snowden. I have only now, after two months, seen the doctor, or he saw the X-rays I have brought with me and now he should make appointment for me for new ones, HIS scans and check-ups. It may happen that I stayed here even after mid-April.\u00a0<em>Keep in touch. Love<\/em>. Boba\u201d[38]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Today, we know Jovanovi\u0107\u2019s opus only in fragments. It is difficult to reconstruct completely what and how much he produced, although Bogoljub remembers a lot. What he had made in Paris has vanished[39]\u00a0as well as many works made in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Between the 1970s and 1980s Jovanovi\u0107 was very prolific. As he says, he used to make very quickly numerous works in coloured ink and wax on paper. A smaller number of them he brought to Belgrade, much more were left in America. Although a whole series of those works called simply works on paper was first exhibited in Belgrade in the Gallery of the Association of Graphic Artists in 2006[40]\u00a0I would call them works from the series SOMETHING PERSONAL because, as Jovanovi\u0107 says, there are frequent scenes from his own life and his own views[41].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0He has brought something from America, but he also took something away from Belgrade. In one of his letters to Cibe, he wrote: \u201cBefore you leave, please go and see my mother and she will give you the black-and-white drawings, and drawings in pencil (there is only one, in fact &#8211; the house by the French Embassy, you will remember I drew it); they are on the piano and should be separated from the \u2018magicians\u2019. The Mag. should stay where they are. Those drawings are mostly illustrations for \u2018The Twelve\u2019 by Alexander Blok and I would like to have them here since I can easily reproduce them.\u201d[42]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The illustrations for \u201eThe Twelve\u201c by Alexander Blok, displayed at Jovanovi\u0107\u2019s exhibition in 1953, and those he may have made in America have not been preserved; but his illustrations for Anatole France\u2019s\u00a0<em>Thais<\/em>, also exhibited in 1953, still exist. Anatole France is in a way Bogoljub\u2019s obsession[43]\u00a0and to the question wherefrom comes such partiality to this writer, he wrote from America: \u201eDear Ivana, my interest in and affinity for AF have roots in my youth and the liberation from the Stalin-Tito rule and Russian writers, several years later. AF \u2013 a SYNTHETIC DESCRIPTION OF HISTORY AND EVENTS was like a fresh breeze in the submarine of soc real and he fascinated me immediately. I shared those new post-communist \u2018REVELATIONS\u2019 with Vasa and maybe some others; FOR A LONG TIME WE WERE SEPARATED FROM THE WEST AND THE FREEDOM AND I CANNOT NOW LOOK BACK ON those \u2019atmospheres\u2019 &#8211; I have forgotten a lot.\u201c[44]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We know only fragments about what Jovanovi\u0107 was doing and how much he has achieved in life. In a letter to his friend Cibe[45]\u00a0in which he mentions some films, he says: \u201eI am writing a script to unmask Yugoslav music and toilets\u201c and suggests that he was \u201epreparing to come to Belgrade again and get the feel of Belgrade winter. I miss that&#8230; I want to remember the old days.\u201c[46]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Only a few of his paintings (oils on canvas) have been found to this day: two abstract ones[47]\u00a0and several portraits, but more of \u201esmall pictures on paper\u201c or \u201efigurative gouaches and small format drawings\u201c from two cycles: the cycle of folk proverbs and the cycle of \u201eMagicians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How much did he paint? It seems he drew even more. The preserved drawings[48]\u00a0are numerous, made on small pieces of paper, frequently office paper. He used pencil, charcoal, pen (India ink, stain, ink), brush (washing, tempera) and wax in abundance in some works. He made numerous self-portraits (in pencil, charcoal, coloured), male and female[49]\u00a0portraits of known and unknown personalities, nudes in most diverse positions, landscapes and veduttas, important buildings, free compositions, etc. Many drawings are dated, some have indications of the place of origin, but all of them are from the time before Bogoljub went to Paris. Only a few were brought from America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0January 2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I.S.\u0106.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[1]\u00a0Boba still has a table in his flat carved by his great-grandfather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[2]\u00a0Today, the place is called Bohdane\u010d Lazni (meaning \u2013 spa). He was from the same place as the Kratohvil family. On one occasion, long ago, Bogoljub, as a great-grandson, visited the grave of the Smetivi family and noticed the grave of the Kratohvil family in immediate vicinity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[3]\u00a0At that time, it was a distant suburb of Belgrade, where \u201educks used to swim\u201c, as Bogoljub says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[4]\u00a0Boba\u2019s sister will have the same name as will Boba\u2019s elder daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[5]\u00a0He stayed in Belgrade until 1913 when he received the Mari\u0107 Fund grant and continued his studies at the Faculty of Law in Paris. He returned to Belgrade after the beginning of the war and worked for the Pressbureau and the French Military Medical Mission. He remained in the country due to his illness and after the armistice he joined the Ministry of Finances as the head of the General Directorate of State Obligations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[6]\u00a0The words of Mrs. Branka Anti\u0107 \u2013 see reference 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[7]\u00a0He died on 16 August 1939.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[8]\u00a0From the interview with Ljiljana \u0106inkul, BOGOLJUB BOBA JOVANOVI\u0106. WORKS ON PAPER, Gallery of the Association of Graphic Artists, Belgrade, 23 October \u2013 11 November 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[9]\u00a0In search of more information about the life and work of the painter Bogoljub Jovanovi\u0107, who is sparse but not forgetful in his reminiscences, I had to contact his daughters, although I had spoken to him on numerous occasions. The elder daughter, Emilija, kindly responded to the appeal and sent several mail messages with photographs of what she still had from her father in her possession, and also wrote about her memories of the days past. The above text is a quotation from Emiija\u2019s mail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[10]\u00a0She lives in Paris and occasionally comes to Belgrade. During one of our meetings I asked her to remember the past and put on paper everything she knows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[11]\u00a0Dated 14 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[12]\u00a0Aleksandar Sa\u0161a Petrovi\u0107, a famous film director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[13]\u00a0The uncle was very strange according to his cousin as well. He never completed university studies although he studied with Jung in Geneva, and also architecture in Grenoble. He was an erudite and as Boba says \u201ea walking encyclopaedia\u201c. He worked as proof-reader in the State Print-house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[14]\u00a0His real neame was Desimir and he died in November 2015 in Cologne, where he lived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[15]\u00a0Real name Emilija.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[16]\u00a0Ivan Prvan had almost no official education, but he was very clever. He was born in Dubrovnik, but came to Belgrade with his mother at an early age. He sold paintings and worked for some time for the Association of Serbian Artists. Afterwards he worked with theatre director Mira Trailovi\u0107. He got a passport on account of her recommendation. When he arrived in Paris, he threw his passport away and brought her into a very unpleasant situation. After a certain time, his wife Olga also arrived in Paris and they both went to America where he worked as a watchmaker. When Olga died, he married Katarina and lived in California. Bogoljub was friends with Prvan and use to stay in his house when he went to America after he had finally re-settled in Belgrade. Prvan had many Jovanovi\u0107\u2019s paintings, but they were lost after Prvan had died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[17]\u00a0His real neame is Velizar. Since it was not an easy name to pronounce in America he was called Vasilije, shortened to Vasa. He also went first to Paris and then to America in 1960. He stayed in New York for a couple of months and then moved to Los Angeles, where he still lives. In the beginning life was difficult and he accepted various assignments, but in the coming years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[18]\u00a0It was in 1947 or 1948 Bogoljub remembers precisely. Some drawings made during those travels confirm the years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[19]\u00a0Even today, in his advanced age, he goes to Ada and to the swimming-pools as he did every time he came only to visit his friends in Belgrade. In a letter to Cibe of 17 July 1982 (hand-written in Cyrillic script) he wrote the following: I shall go to Belgrade most probably in early August. Please make sure that the weather at Ada&#8230; and that there are boiled corn cobs and tomatoes at the Kleni\u0107 market&#8230; I have written to Prvan and thought of going there in late July but they are expecting guests at that time and may be going to the Lake Tahoe, so that I would probably stay here and go straight to Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[20]\u00a0An art history student.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[21]\u00a0In January 1959.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[22]\u00a0In November of 1960.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[23]\u00a0Frequent meetings, conversations and correspondence (when Bogoljub was away in the USA for various reasons or in Germany visiting his brother and brother\u2019s family) began in July 2014, from the mopment he won the \u201eStojan \u0106eli\u0107, artist, theorist, critic, academician\u201c award established by the ZEPTER MUSEUM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[24]\u00a0She died in 1999.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[25]\u00a0In mid-eighties, after getting permission from Bogoljub Jovanovi\u0107,\u00a0 Aleksandar Sa\u0161a Petrovi\u0107 and Stojan \u0106eli\u0107 decided to organise an exhibition for him in the Gallery of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade. On that occasion, Cibe gave Stojan \u0106eli\u0107 a number of letters and photographs Bogoljub had sent to him from America; in an accompanying letter he wrote: Stojan, there are many letters and other materials and I hate to throw that away, so I am sending all that to you to go through and see if you may need it. Do whatever you want, even throw them away, I can\u2019t, Greetings AJ Cibe, 20 November 1986. However, Jovanovi\u0107 changed his mind and did not allow them to organise the exhibition and \u0106eli\u0107 did not make use of the offered material. The letters and photographs have been preseved in \u0106eli\u0107\u2019s legacy and some of them are being used on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[26]\u00a071, Payson Ave., New York, N.Y. 10034.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[27]\u00a0Although some of the pictures he brought from America were dated 1962, 1963 on the back, in his own hand, there must be a mistake. Bogoljub is not able to remember exactly what had happened, but he maintains now that not one of them could have been made in the sixties and seventies since he began to paint like that only after he had moved from the big studio in which he worked on enormous canvases into the space where he was able to produce only smaller pictures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[28]\u00a0Spanish family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[29]\u00a0E-mail letter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[30]\u00a0Letter from Paris of 14 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[31]\u00a0The wife of Aleksandar Sa\u0161a Petrovi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[32]\u00a0A typed letter dated February \u201968 \u2013 see reference 25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[33]\u00a0Handwritten and dated 11 July 1981 \u2013 see reference 25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[34]\u00a0The letter from Mrs. Branka Anti\u0107 from Paris, 14 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[35]\u00a0She died in 1997.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[36]\u00a07 April 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[37]\u00a0E-mail of 8 April 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[38]\u00a0E-mail of 6 March 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[39]\u00a0By pure chance the painting\u00a0<em>K-55<\/em>, made in Paris, was exhibited at the Biennial in Rijeka in 1956. It remained in Rijeka until the 1980s when it was found and brought to Belgrade for the exhibition YUGOSLAV PAINTING OF THE FIFTIES<em>,\u00a0<\/em>Yugoslav Twentieth Cenury Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, July-September 1980.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[40]\u00a0The exhibition of these works was organised by Ljiljana \u0106inkul, BOGOLJUB BOBA JOVANOVI\u0106. WORKS ON PAPER, Gallery of the Association of Graphic Artists, Belgrade, 23 October \u2013 11 November, 2006. The works were then dated to the sixties and seventies but new assessment shows that they could not have been made then but a decade later \u2013 see reference 27.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[41]\u00a0Arrow is a frequent motif in these works. On several occasions Jovanovi\u0107 said that the origins of the arrow were in the past and his youthful pranks. He remembers how they used to play William Tell, although boys of 16 or 17, in the courtyard of his house. They made arrows from broken umbrellas. One of them would put an apple on his head and the other would shoot the arrow. Once, while the apple was on Jovanovi\u0107\u2019s head, the arrow did not hit the apple but almost hit his eye (the cheek-bone under the eye).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[42]\u00a0Handwritten letter dated, Sunday 22 August 1971.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[43]\u00a0He still thinks of continuing his work on illustrations for\u00a0<em>thais\u00a0<\/em>(tranaslated into Serbian as Taida).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[44]\u00a0E-mail of March 6, 2015. For\u00a0<em>Thais<\/em>\u00a0see the text by Je\u0161a Denegri, p\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[45]\u00a0Dated Sunday 14 November, 1976.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[46]\u00a0Typed and dated 14 November 1976.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[47]\u00a0One called\u00a0<em>K-55<\/em>\u00a0from 1955, for decades kept in the Museum of Contemporary Art, although not in their ownership. That painting, as Jovanovi\u0107 wrote on 28 January 2015 \u201eis still in my possession. They have used it for 50 years without my permission, just as they confiscated our property and built their house on it. They must pay me the rent\u201c, and another one\u00a0<em>Untitled<\/em>\u00a0from 1956, found together with three portraits in recent reconstruction of Bogoljub\u2019s former studio. After conservation and restoration, the author gave that painting as present to the ZEPTER MUSEUM and it was first shown at the exhibition BETWEEN THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, May-June, and The House of Bequests, Belgrade, July 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[48]\u00a0Mostly with collectors particularly with Milo\u0161 Vujasinovi\u0107, Ratko Simi\u0107evi\u0107, Zvonimir Ose\u010dki and Toma Ljubisavljevi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[49]\u00a0There are more male portraits, but there is a sufficient number of female ones, although on one occasion Bogoljub said he did not like to draw female portraits and made them only if commissioned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeptermuseum.rs\/sites\/default\/files\/1_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeptermuseum.rs\/sites\/default\/files\/2_10.jpg\" 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