Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov

Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov (born 1940, Sofia) was an art historian and professor formerly at the University of Toronto Mississauga (she is now retired and the university made her an Emerita professor) 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.

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. (invited contributor) Vincent van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook. Abrams Books, 2016.

Awards (1994): awarded the “Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académique“ for her scholarly contributions to French art history;

Personal She was married to Robert Welsh (1932-2000), Mondrian scholar.