Portrait of a Lady—By Vladimir Becic

A Noted Jugo-Slav Painter Whose Work Is Now on View at the Sesquicentennial

THE above portrait—a genuine, sincere and vigorous work of art—embodies the artistic view-point and aesthetic attitude of a growing group of painters in Central Europe. The author of it is a professor in the Art Academy of Zagreb, a city which also is celebrated as the home of Ivan Mestrovic, the Serbian sculptor. As a student in Germany and France, Becic early attracted the attention of critics and connoisseurs. During the war he fought with the Serbian army on the Saloniki front. Although not an extreme modernist his paintings share many of the characteristics of the modern school, imposed upon the sound and solid background of the old masters. A group of his latest and most striking works is now to be seen in the exhibit of European art at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia