Artist of the Day, May 9, 2022: Ivan Nenov, a Bulgarian painter (#1564)

Ivan Nenov (1902–1997) was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia. He was the husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova. He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts. In the early 1940s his studio was destroyed in the bombings of Sofia during World War II.

In the 1950s Nenov was prohibited from exhibiting his paintings, and dismissed from the Academy of Fine Arts for being a Formalist. Subsequently, he began working with clay.

In 2012 the Sofia City Art Gallery held a retrospective of Nenov's work.

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Ivan Nenov

 Self-portrait, 1925

Maternity, 1920

Untitled (study), 1920–29

 Mother, 1925

 Portrait of the Sculptress Vaska Emanuilova, 1927

 Unemployed, 1931

 Beggar, 1933

 Hotel Albergo Menini, 1933

 Local, 1933

 The Glass Jug, 1933

 Servant, 1933-34

 Balcony with Viaduct, 1936

 Morning, 1936

 Signora Rossi, 1936

 Woman in a Dress, 1936

 Fishermеn, 1937

 By the sea, 1938

 Composition (Delphinium) 1938

 Woman Waiting, 1941

 Girl with fishes, 1946

 Girls Knotting Nets, 1946

 Sozopol to the moon, 1946

 The stairs on our street (Spring Day), 1949

 Sozopol terrace, 1962

 Morning breath, 1970

 Landscape, 1933

Cityscape

Gypsy

Portrait of a girl

Woman in front of the mirror

Woman with Apron