Emil Stoychev (1935), “Woman with a Rooster”, 1970

Stoychev, Emil Asparuhov (1935). Emil Stoychev was born on June 26, 1935 in Sofia. He is also the most expensive selling contemporary Bulgarian artist. His creative biography begins somewhere in the 60s, when his first exhibition was taken down. Then Bogomil Raynov bought almost the entire exposition. Already in the 70s, Emil Stoychev intervened in the artistic life in Paris. In the early 1990s, Jacques Chirac, then mayor of Paris, invited him to hold an exhibition at the Bagatelle Palace and opened it in person. The creator is an honorary doctorate of the National Academy of Arts, winner of the “Stara Planina – I degree” order. Emil Stoychev lives in Sofia and Paris. They call him the “poet of the brush”, compare his “immediate relevance” to world geniuses such as Goya and Picasso. The artist defines his style as “fantastic realism”.