Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov
Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov was an art historian and professor formerly at the University of Toronto Mississauga who is an authority on the art of Vincent van Gogh. Her book Van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook, contains reproductions of sketches said to be by the artist, but the authenticity of which has been disputed.
She was the first non-French art scholar to be invited to curate the inaugural exhibition for the Musée D'Orsay in France. Welsh-Ovcharov was a contributor to an exhibition “The Mystical Landscape: From Claude Monet to Emily Carr,” organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto in 2016, and the Musée D'Orsay in Paris in 2017. In Goodreads, many of her widely published books have 5 stars.
Selected publications
- The early work of Charles Angrand and his contact with Vincent van Gogh. Editions Victorine, Utrecht & Den Haag, 1971.
- Vincent Van Gogh: His Paris Period, 1886-1888. Editions Victorine, Utrecht, 1976.
- Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1981.
- Van Gogh in Provence and Auvers. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1999.
- Gauguin's Nirvana : painters at Le Pouldu 1889-90. New Haven : Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford in association with Yale University Press, 2001.
- Vincent van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook. Abrams Books, 2016.
Awards
- : awarded the “Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académique“ for her scholarly contributions to French art history;