“No day without a line” was her motto, and in 60 years of creation, she drew and colored the childhood of many generations with those lines.
About 700 original black-and-white and color illustrations for books, revived folk proverbs on graphics, drawings, and watercolors were donated to the National Library. There is also a part of the opus dedicated to Belgrade.
“We wanted to give back to the audience a part of Bose Kićevac, to enable children, youth, students, adults to be in communication with her work. Her world that springs from the pages of books, I think is something unique because she has always been known as the first lady. illustrations, so something that lasts “, points out Ana Popović Bodroža, Bosiljka’s daughter.
The public library is the home of all those whose books, paintings and legacies are in it. The legacy of Bosiljka Kićevac shares the same roof with the legacy of the painter Ljubica Cuca Sokić.
“We have the works of Cuca Sokić here, now Bosiljka Kićevac is joining her. As they were together in some way in life, now they are together in the library,” explains the acting manager of the National Library of Serbia, Vladimir Pištalo.
The legacy of Bosiljka Kićevac Popović, the “knight of the golden pen”, will be protected and preserved here.
Professional processing of the material will enable more open communication with the public, but also contribute to a more thorough understanding of its role and significance for the history of art, applied art and book illustration in Yugoslavia and Serbia.
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