46. Houses in Smolyan

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46. Houses in Smolyan

Vladimir Rilski

1905, Peshtera - 1969, Shiroka Laka

Estimate:

EUR 1.000 - 1.800

Sold

EUR 1.400

oil on paper laid on plywood, 40 x 48.5 cm, signed bottom right, in brown, "Вл. Рилски“

PROVENANCE

Collection Valko Gaidarov (1937-2009), one of the founders and first director of the Smolyan Art Gallery (1971-2003).

Vladimir Georgiev Rilski was born in 1905 in Peshtera. He studied at the Art School academy in Sofia from 1925 to 1929 under the distinguished professors Stefan Ivanov and Nikola Marinov. He graduated with honors, then specialized in Vienna. Quickly manages to build his own personal style and sense for the choice of topics and their individuality interpreting. He is one of the young artists who have been accepted into the “Society of the South Bulgarian artists”.Vladimir Rilski built his individual style in the 1930s and 1940s century as one of the followers of the idea of resurrecting the spiritual heritage from the past and turning it into art with a national essence and appearance. Since 1934 until 1938 he worked as a teacher in Plovdiv, where he befriended artists Vasil Barakov, Zlatyu Boyadzhiev and David Perets, called "Baratsite", as well as with Tsanko Lavrenov, Danail Dechev, Anastas Staykov - all of them inspired by the beauty of The Rhodopes. In 1936 and 1938, the author presented two joint exhibitions with Zlatyu Boyadzhiev in Plovdiv, in which he presents architectural landscapes from Koprivshtitsa and The Rhodopes. In 1939, Vladimir Rilski started working as a teacher in Sofia, and from 1945 until 1949 he worked in the library of the Academy of Arts. Arrange two solo exhibitions in Sofia in 1946 and 1964. The landscape composition "Houses at the foot of the mountain" has all the qualities of his most representative painting. In his work, Vladimir Rilski reveals the traditions and beauty of Bulgarian Revival icon painting with the language of a modern aesthetic. His figurative compositions, portraits and landscapes bring the atmosphere of poetic immersion in native nature and the beauty of the revival architecture of the old towns and villages - Asenovgrad, Plovdiv, Koprivshtitsa, Shiroka Laka. The emotional power in the paintings of Vladimir Rilsky lies in his ability to create a realistic painting that contains a romantic charge and nostalgia for the values of bygone eras.The artist recreates one an emotional world in which he harmoniously unites past and present through which suggests the idea of the permanence and strength of the people's spirit. This is particularly evident in his landscapes from the Rhodopes, where he works from 1949 until his death in 1969. The mountain became for him an abode and a source of poetics inspiration. During this period, the painting "Houses at the Foot of the mountain", in which Vladimir Rilski painted the beautiful village of Shiroka Laka, where today there is a museum dedicated to his work. The Rhodope landscape is his big one love. In the numerous landscapes, he reveals the restrained beauty of the mountain and the characteristic Renaissance architecture. (S.N.)

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