The exhibition "Dobrović, Šumanović, Konjović, Šuput – European Contexts" was a chance to show to the public a forgotten painting by Bogdan Šuput kept in the holdings of The National and University Library of the Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka.

By exhibiting the forgotten painting by Bogdan Šuput The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska reminded the public of the fact that the year of 2014 marked one hundred years since the birth of this important Serbian artist, who was born in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, and shot by the occupying forces in 1942, in the Second World War.

The painting, the largest of all his paintings, is called "Ljubija Mine". It was made in 1940, when the artist found himself in the area of ​​the Ljubija iron ore mine in search of new motifs. Šuput arrived in Ljubija at the invitation of Aleksandar Vulić, the engineer who constructed the City Bridge in Banja Luka, and who is also assumed to have been the original owner of the painting.

Bogdan Šuput created a meager oeuvre, of which 84 oil paintings, which makes the fact one of his paintings is kept in Banja Luka particularly relevant. There is little information about Šuput’s painting "Ljubija Mine" in related art literature and it was believed to have been lost, which makes the news of its rediscovery in the collection of The National and University Library of the Republic of Srpska significant for the professional community.