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Mahatma Gandhi portrayed by Kristian Krekovic in 1931

Kristian Krekovic's portrait of Mahatma Gandhi (a detail), Paris 1931.

 

The portrait of Mahatma Gandhi had been made during his meditation in the Paris atelier of Kristian Krekovic, distinguished Croatian painter, in 1931. Krekovic was a personal friend of Kristian Krekovic. The portrait is exhibited in the Krekovic Museum in Palma de Mallorca in Catalonia, Spain. The Krekovic Museum in Palma has officially been opened by the Spanish Queen Sofia in 1981.

Kristian Krekovic also portrayed

  • the English Queen (Queen Mother, in 1938, upon her request; the portrait is kept in the Buckingham palace in London, see [Sabater, p. 19]: "...Como expresión de su trabajo en esta época, basta citar el famosos retrato que hizo de la Reina María de Inglaterra, retrato que adorna una de las estancias del Palacio Real de Buckingham.",
  • the royal family of Sweden (King Gustav V upon his invitation to Stockholm in 1948, when he was at the age of 90)

 

 

Kristian Krekovic in his atelier in Paris in 1930s. Gandhi's portrait is behind him, made in red chalk.

Kristian Krekovic with his wife Sina in his atelier in Paris in 1930s.

 

 

 

 

 

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