Cows

1969
wood/carved
475 x 625 x 300 mm
signature: on a pedestal: BELKOVIĆ / DRAGICA /HLEBINE / 1969.

An elderly man in boots and a shallow hat, propped on a stick, leading two cows. The figure is completely quite rough, with no details.

Dragica Belkovic was born in 1931 in Hlebine and is considered a veteran of female Naive sculpture. She mostly worked in wood, having started carving in 1967. The subject matter of her sculptures were the local people of Podravina region in their everyday life. She died in 2009. (quote: Igor Mukic: "50 Years of Croatian Association of Naive Artists", HDNU - Croatian Association of Naive Artists, Zagreb, 2014., page: 75, translation into English: Miona Mustra)