Ivan Lacković Croata: Crteži, grafike

As a draftsman par excellence, Lacković is represented in numerous areas of drawing, from free ink drawing to complex graphic techniques. The author of the monograph systematically and critically selected the works from Lacković's truly impressive drawing oeuvre and in their presentation mainly followed chronological order.

The first graphic map was printed by Ivan Lacković-Croata in 1968 (Zagreb, foreword: Vladimir Crnković); he exhibited his drawings independently for the first time in 1970 (Zagreb, Dubrava Gallery), the same year that Anatole Jakovsky wrote in Paris: Because Lacković, whether we like it or not, is now the best draftsman among the naive painters of the whole world; but he received full recognition for his brilliant drawing and bravura graphics in the same year 1977: that year he organized a large exhibition of graphic maps in the Gallery of Primitive Art, and the national and university library, in cooperation with the publishing and printing service of the Liber University Press, released a book of his drawings and graphics (Božo Biškupić). Contributions by Bože Biškulpić, Josip Depol, Jean-Louis Deipierris, Ivan Golub, Margheirite Guidacci, Anatol Jakovski, Vladimir Maleković Tonko Maroević, Pierre Seghers, Veselko Tenžera, Giuseppe Ungarettii, Giancarlo Vigorelli, Boris Vizintin were published in the book. Igor Zidić and Vinko Zlamalik.

By that time, Lacković Croata already had 11 maps - in this sense the collaboration with Božo Biškupić and Igor Zidić was particularly fruitful - and at the end of 1978, the Centro culturale internaziionale dei naifs Jugoslavi printed for him in Rome one of the following maps: I am looking for my star, which now we are exhibiting in the Dubrava Gallery (the map was publicly exhibited for the first time in the country in the Prečko reading room in Zagreb).