Borislav Bogdanovich

"It would be easy to say of Bogdanovich, prominent Yugoslavian painter now in this country and showing his recent pictures at the Lilienfeld Gallery, that he suggests in his work a combination of Renoir, Matisse and Van Gogh and let it go at that.

But it would not be entirely fair. For while he does in his bright color juxtapositions suggest the Dutchman, in his design (especially in paintings of interiors) Matisse, and in his brushwork and figure painting Renoir, he seems to have fused the essence of all of them in a new, fresh, luminous expression which is oddly personal and, even more oddly, American."

Emily Genauer (World Telegram 4/18/42)

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"There are always people to say that a given moment is not the right one for art. We may well be grateful to Bogdanovich for saying so clearly through his pictures that the present moment is one when art is as necessary as ever it was or ever will be."

Walter Pach (Lillienfeld Galleries Brochure, 1942)