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This is not a blog which opines on current events. It rather uses incidents, books (old and new), links and papers to muse about our social endeavours.
So old posts are as good as new! And lots of useful links!

The Bucegi mountains - the range I see from the front balcony of my mountain house - are almost 120 kms from Bucharest and cannot normally be seen from the capital but some extraordinary weather conditions allowed this pic to be taken from the top of the Intercontinental Hotel in late Feb 2020

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

bulgarian paintings

Slavi Genev (189301977)

I've always enjoyed art galleries - but have been slow to appreciate let alone buy paintings. I bought a few in Romania and Uzbekistan - but it was Bulgaria which really started me on my passion. During my year there I bought about 30 - even commissioned one (of my father - from a balck and white picture). It's their painters of the mid century I really love - they were (thanks to the Turks) slow to the art form - and therefore were in the last century still celebrating the beauty of landscapes and pastels. There is an auction tomorrow in Sofia - and I have an eye on a few paintings - including the above. Painted 60 years ago, the asking price is 400 euros....

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