Photo: WikimediaDid the two most famous painters and contemporaries of Šida, Ilija Bašičević Bosilj and Sava Šumanović, know each other and socialize, and what is the relationship between Sofia Loren and Bosilj?
Unfairly neglected, somewhat in the shadow of his much more famous Sava Šumanović, the work of the painter Ilija Bašičević Bosilj is in the Museum of Naive Art "Ilijanum", in the center of Šid. Although we drop in unannounced, Ljubinka Pantić, the director of the museum, welcomes us warmly and shows us the treasure she is looking after.
In the first hall, there are works of naive painting by different artists from the region that Ilija Bosilj bought or received as gifts, a total of 51. The sumptuous works of Generalić and Ivan Lacković Crota stand out. In the second part of the Museum there are 287 of his paintings and drawings. Both his own works and those of naive artists, Bosilj donated to the city of Šid, so that "Ilianum" could be opened.
I am interested in whether the two most famous painters from Šida - Bašičević and Šumanović knew each other and socialized. The director of the museum says that, although they were peers (Sava was a year younger) and although they went to school at the same time, it is unlikely that the two of them were friends. Ilija, the ninth child from a peasant family, and Sava, the only child from a wealthy family, members of two different classes, could hardly have been part of the same world and sat in the same bars or salons. Especially since Sava was killed in 1942 and Ilija started painting only in 1957.
As we leave the museum, on one wall I see a photo of the famous Sophia Loren and behind her a painting by Bosiljev. I had the opportunity to meet Sofia five years ago in Havre, France, at the "christening" of an MSC cruise ship. Then, at the age of 82, Sofia, standing straight as a candle with innate elegance, smashed a bottle of champagne against the metal bow of the ship. Where did she come from with Bosil's paintings, as we see her in the photos in Šid? Sofia's husband Carlo Ponti, when his wife gave birth in Switzerland and Ilia's exhibition was there, asked to buy all the exhibited paintings. Ilia's son Mangelos refused out of pride, so Ponti bought only seven paintings. After that, Ilija painted several portraits of Sophia Loren. Then he entered the Rockefeller collection, and later one of his paintings was bought by Elizabeth Taylor.
Robert Shepherd
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