Winter

1968
oil/glass
460 x 400 mm
signature: down in the right corner: Ivan Lacković Croata

In the foreground a young trees, under the branches scattered birds nests. The central part of the image occupies village in the valley with roofs white of snow. Upon the village threatening gloomy gray sky.

Ivan Lackovic Croata was born January 1, 1932 in the village of Batinska in Podravina. He finished elementary school, was a farmer, and then moved to Zagreb to work as a postman. His first solo exhibition was in Zagreb in 1964. He has been a pupil of the great master Krsto Hegedusic. From 1968 he devoted himself to painting professionally. The poetic vision of the world and line painting light, relaxed and melodious, are the core values which raise Lackovic in naive painting world. He died in Zagreb on August 29 2004.