Евгения Илиева (1895 – 1981)
Evgenia Ilieva (1895 – 1981), “Portrait of Vela Piskova”
Detailed information
A kind of art
painting
Category
Portrait
Period
around the 60s of the twentieth century
Author / years
Evgenia Ilieva (1895 – 1981)
Title of the work
“Portrait of Vela Piskova”
Technique
Oil paints
Size
46 / 42 cm.
Material
Canvas
Inventory number
544
Location
Art Gallery “Elena Karamihailova”
Biographical data about the author
Evgenia Ilieva Lepavtsova (1895-1981). Painter, teacher, artist at the National Ethnographic Museum. Born in Stara Zagora. Graduated “Painting” at the Art Academy under Prof. Iv. Mrkvichka and Prof. St. Ivanov. In the 1940s, he was an artist at the National Ethnographic Museum in Sofia. He mainly paints watercolors of Bulgarian costumes, live models or in nature. He also creates many sketches, sketches, paintings with everyday subjects – compositions of high documentary and scientific value. The artist was awarded by the Ministry of Information and Arts for her drawings in the NEM exhibition “Bulgarian Folk Costumes” (1946)
