Oil on very high quality linen canvas. 

Erih Slomovic (1915–1942) was a Yugoslav art collector. He was an assistant and protégé of Ambroise Vollard.

Slomovic intended to make his reputation and (some say) his fortune, apparently, by importing avant-garde culture from Paris to Yugoslavia. He pursued artists ranging from Cocteau and Bonnard to Chagall and Le Corbusier. Slomovic is said to have boasted of commissioning le Corbusier to build a modern art museum in Belgrade.

After Vollard’s death in a car accident in July 1939, Slomovic continued acquiring art, probably with the help of Vollard’s brother Lucien Vollard, and possibly in collaboration with Martin Fabiani.

In any case, soon after the 1940 Zagreb exhibition came down, the Nazis marched into Yugoslavia, and Slomovic, fearing the worst as a Jew, fled with his family to a village outside Belgrade. In a farmhouse there, he hid his pictures in four metal containers and one round cylinder behind a false wall. Eventually, local people betrayed the family to the Nazis, who detained Slomovic along with his father and brother. Soon the three were transferred with other Jews to an execution camp. They were gassed in a truck that was converted into a mobile killing unit. Erich Slomovic was 27.

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With every painting that is sent around the world there is:

- Special Certificate of Authenticity

- Unique dry stamp on the certificate

- Written history for each painting, hand signed

- Special black case for storing documents

- Handmade wooden box specially for each painting

- Thin wooden frame and hardware to attach it on wall

- Painting do not have decorative frame

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