The Will

1969
oil/glass
350 x 410 mm
signature: down in the right corner: M / Gradečak /1969.

On the bed, with his hand behind his head, lying man, thinking. Beside him sits a conceived woman, while the other five men curiously looks at how he writes a will on a checkered blue mat scribe tablecloth.

Mijo Gradecak was born in 1919 in Kuzminec, Hrvatsko Zagorje region. He mostly painted oil on canvas. He died in Kuzminec, Hrvatsko Zagorje region in 1995. (quote: Igor Mukic: "50 Years of Croatian Association of Naive Artists", HDNU - Croatian Association of Naive Artists, Zagreb, 2014., page: 93, translation into English: Miona Mustra)