VLADIMIR VELICKOVIC (Belgrade, 1935). Untitled,... Lot 8

VLADIMIR VELICKOVIC (Belgrade, 1935). Untitled, from the series "Olympic Suite", 1992. Lithograph on 270 gr Velin d'Arches paper, copy 197/250. Signed, dated and justified by hand. Size: 90 x 63 cm. The Olympic Suite is made up of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism. The artists chosen work in very diverse movements and styles, from the hyperrealism of Antonio López to the abstraction of Sol Lewitt, including abstract expressionism, the geometrism of Arden Quin, conceptual art, pop art, the new realism of Baldaccini and Rotella, and the new fauvism of Dokoupil, among others. Among the artists represented there are creators of great international renown, widely recognised by the critics. Vladimir Velickovic is one of the most prominent Serbian artists. He trained at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and between 1963 and 1966 worked as an assistant to Krsto Hegedusic in his studio in Zagreb. In 1965 he won the Paris Biennale prize and the following year he moved to Paris, where he continued to work and exhibit, gaining wide public acclaim with his exhibition at the Galerie du Dragon in 1967, for example. In 1983 he was appointed professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts, a post he held until 2000. In 1985 he was also appointed member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.