Nevena Vitorović is the older sister of painter Nadežda, born in Priboj in 1928. During World War II, she attended the Second Women’s High School in Belgrade, which she did not finish because of her participation with the Third Krajina Brigade on the Srem Front as a radio operator. At the age of 18, she got a job at PTT and married a wartime comrade, an officer, but they soon separated due to her impaired health and the need for treatment.

From her earliest childhood, Nevena was a beautiful girl with a pronounced need for communication, a passion for reading books and a refined sense of beauty. Eager for companionship, she traveled a lot and that’s how she met her second husband, the painter Živojin Miškov. The second marriage will enable her to have a rich and intense social life as well as a large number of friends from the world of painting and literature. Presence in Belgrade’s artistic circles and numerous friendships brought Nevena a handful of gifts, from which an extremely valuable collection of books, paintings and sculptures was created over time. After she had previously taken care of part of her sister’s legacy to the Priboj Museum, in 2004, one year before her death, she bequeathed 39 paintings and 76 books from her collection. The painting collection has works by recognized artists from the area of the former Yugoslavia, and the library mainly contains professional literature on fine arts. In Nevena’s life story, Priboj imposed itself as the beginning and the end because, according to her wish, she was buried in the local city cemetery in 2005.