Petar Grgec – Playful Horses

Petar Grgec (1933 – 2006) was a Croatian naive painter, born on January 27, 1933, in Kloštar Podravski. After completing secondary technical school in Rijeka in 1953, he moved to Karlovac, where he lived and worked until his death on August 2, 2006. Grgec was one of the founders of the Winter Art Colony in Karlovac (ZILIK) in 1974 and a member of the Society of Naive Artists. His painting includes oil on canvas and glass, watercolors, drawings, and graphics. His works often depict scenes from everyday life and nature, creating images that balance between dreams and reality. His works have been exhibited in over 30 solo and more than 300 group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, including the Henri Rousseau Museum in Laval, the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in the Vatican, the Metropolitan Museum in Manila, the Art Museum in São Paulo, and the Croatian Museum of Naive Art in Zagreb.