PORTRAIT OF YORDANKA DIMITROVA KALICIN

PORTRAIT OF YORDANKA DIMITROVA KALICIN 1923
Ink, col.pencils, tempera, 70.5 x 53.2 cm
Artist’s signature in Italics (bottom left): Boris Georgiev 1923
Inv. N 973
The woman portrayed was Yordanka Dimitrova Kalicin (1890 – 1972), sister of the mathematician and academician, prof.Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov. The picture was painted in 1923 in
Varna. It has all the distinctive features of Boris Georgiev’s style in which the line, his most
expressive medium renders plasticity of the depiction, embraces with a contour the figure,
separates the colour spaces, finely moves around the shapes and pulsates in the light and
chiaroscuro. The graphically clear and stylised approach emphasise the sense of finesse corresponding to the resemblance of the model. The portrait was owned by Yordanka Kalicin’s
son, Nikola Stilyanov Kalicin, professor of physics in Sweden (1918 – 1970).
On 29 April 2011, her grandson, Georgi Georgiev Kalicin donated the portrait for the collection of Varna City Art Gallery.