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Technique: Lithography on Arches paper (see watermark)
Year: 1975
Title: Orator
Signature: Hand signed
Edition: 55/190
Condition: Very good
Image size: 89 x 58 cm
Vladimir Veličković (11 August 1935 – 29 August 2019) was a Serbian painter who spent much of his adult life in Paris.
Biography
Veličković graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade. From 1963 to 1966 he was an assistant in the master workshop of Krsto Hegedušić in Zagreb.
In 1965 he was honored with a prize at the Paris Biennale, where he moved the following year. Veličković came to public attention in 1967 with an exhibition at the Galerie du Dragon in Paris, which established him as one of the leading artists of the Narrative Figuration art movement.
In 1983 he was elected professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he taught until 2000. In 1985 he was elected member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) and honorary doctor of science from the University of Kragujevac. He was honored with the highest French award in the field of culture and art, the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. His paintings have been exhibited in many countries in Europe and America since 1951.
In 2017 he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.