1969 Exhibit Catalog BULGARIAN ARTIST ILYA PETROV, HAND-SIGNED, SB RARE

Description: ULTRA RARE EXHIBIT CATALOG OF NOTED BULGARIAN ARTIST ILIYA PETROV, NICELY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST HIMSELF. Using Google translate, the heading on the page where his inscription and signature appear reads: "Committee for Art and Culture Union of / Bulgarian Artists Retrospective of / the Exhibition of the People's Artist Ilia Petrov / Gallery Gurko Sofia No. 1 / September 1969" The best Google translate could do with the inscription is: "Ha Qunremo .. her family.... With Best Feelings". The inscription is in a purple colored ink, but the signature looks to be black crayon-like, rather than ink. A listing photo shows a close-up of the inscription and the signature. The colophon at the back of the book indicates a printing limitation of 1200 copies, published by the "Bulgarian Artist", Printed by the House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia The booklet is in FAIR TO GOOD CONDITION, and would be much better except for a moisture event which has left a stain outline on the back cover and then several pages into the book with some light waviness near the top page edge almost to the beginning of the booklet. Still a collection of stunning B&W examples of his work. The book is comprised of just this title/inscription page, a 4-page bio of the artist, and then the illustrations. Unpaginated with a total of 24 glossy leaves, or 48 pages. On this artist from the internet: "Born in in Razgrad in 1903, graduated from the Art Academy in Sofia in the class of Nikola Marinov in 1926. After graduation he continues his education in Munich where he studied in the school of Prof Hainrich Man between 1926 and 1928. In the 1930s he made study trips to France and Italy. Since 1941 he is a lecturer and since 1946 a professor at the Art Academy in Sofia. Ilya Petrov played a significant role in the education of many Bulgarian painters from the younger generation. Today, the Art Gymnasium in Sofia carries his name. Ilya Petrov was active in the Pirin Macedonia region during 1940s. He was a very famous portrait painter, and one work from his Macedonian period is the portrait of the Macedonian poet Nikola Ionkov Vapcarov, sold by the Auction House Victoria, Sofia on 12/Oct/2009 (lot number: 1001)." B107

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