He was born in Bilisani (the district of Obrenovac) in 1902.
He died in Belgrade in 1989.

I drew some drawings, I painted some paintings, about five thousand of them, and that's what I'm still doing. I paint and write the things that nature gives me and orders me to, and not something that someone would want to tell ….
(Belgrade, 25^th August 1972)


A girl at the beach, 1975,
oil-cardboard, 69,5x95 cm

He never overcame pictorial problems rationally; on the contrary, he built everything spontaneously, instinctively. He formed his characteristic artistic expression on the basis of intuitive perceptions. With his strong imagination, rejecting classic aesthetic formulas and the traditional notion of beauty, Sekulic created an opus rooted deeply in contemporary art life.
He is placed in the group of "marginal" artists, those who belong to L´Art-Brut. Despite those opinions Sekulic is one of the best classics of Yugoslav naive art...
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… I was left without father, just with my mother and three feeble little sisters at the age of ten. Before he died my father had told me: "Learn by yourself, draw and write with the stone in your hand. Work and never be lazy, selfish people will not help you. Science could be studied during the whole human life and that's why it could be learnt both by a child and a man." Thus my father closed his eyes in his prime, shed a tear and left me, my sisters and my mother for good - in that sad drama.
At the age of thirty I was improved through drawing and perception and then painting as well. All that unknown was given to me to learn. Painting was interesting to me but drawing was hard and not easy at all, being acquired sometimes more easily and sometimes in a harder way …
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He had one-man shows in Belgrade, Zagreb, Munich, Bönnigheim, Arandjelovac, Paris, Köln, Jagodina …
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The germ of life, 1974,
oil-cardboard, 72x102 cm

Monograph:
Vladimir Crnkovic, Sava Sekulic, Charlotte Zander Gallery, Munich 1984
(a bibliographic edition)
Vladimir Crnkovic, Sava Sekulic, Charlotte Zander Museum, Bönnigheim 1993
Nina Krstić, Ljiljana Kojić, Jovica Stošić in: Sava Sekulić, MNU Jagodina 2003.

Monographic catalogue:
Jovanovic K., Crnkovic V., Smiljkovic K., Krizic N., Kojic Lj.: Sava Sekulic, MNA, Jagodina and the Gallery of Primitive Art in Zagreb, 1988
Nina Krstic, In Sita 2000 (Yugoslav collection of naive art), MNA, Jagodina, 2001
 

Encyclopaedias on naive art:
Kelemen, B., Yugoslav Naive Painting, Zagreb 1977
Boskovic, M., Masirevic, M., Self-taught artists in Serbia, Torino - Jagodina 1977
Dimitrijevic, K., Naive art in Yugoslavia, Belgrade 1979
Boskovic, M., Masirevic, M., A Monograph, MNA Jagodina 1979
Bihalji Merin O., Tomasevic N., Encyclopaedia of Naive Art, Belgrade 1984
The Museum of Naive Art in Svetozarevo 1960-1985, A Monograph, MNA, Jagodina 1985
Stosic J., on Sava Sekulic in: Serbian Naive Art, Belgrade 1993
N. Krstić, Sava Sekulić in: Naive Art in Serbia, MNU Jagodina i SANU Beograd 2003.

If all the land were tilled, 1960,
oil-cardboard, 34x32 cm

A mother and her burden, 1978,
pencil-paper, 21x49cm

Nature walks across heavens, 1974, oil-cardboard, 102x70cm