Lithograph Théo Tobiasse (1927-2012) 173/175

Lithograph by Théo Tobiasse signed lower right and numbered lower left 173/175. Titled "Maternity or a goat in Venice". Some foxing to note on the white borders. Théo Tobiasse was born in 1927 in Jaffa, Palestine, and died in 2012 in Cagnes-sur-mer. He arrived in Paris in 1931 with his family. The death of his mother, the Second World War with the wearing of the yellow star, the refusal at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs because of his origins and the obligation to hide in a Parisian apartment for two years turned his life upside down. He initially turned to advertising design and became a successful designer. But his passion for painting took over again. His first paintings were exhibited at the Salon des peintres du Sud-Est in 1960. He then won the “young Mediterranean painting” prize in 1961. Théo Tobiasse also won the Dorothy Gould Prize in 1961. He then decided to devote himself solely to the visual arts. Numerous exhibitions have been dedicated to him around the world, in Paris, Geneva, Montreal, Tokyo, London, Zurich, Lausanne, Los Angeles, kyiv, New York, Prague… Théo Tobiasse develops, in a style that is at once surrealist, expressionist and a little primitive, a personal iconography drawn from his own memories of his childhood in Lithuania, the wanderings of a family seeking a land of asylum and the Holocaust. Then, from his many travels, he immersed himself in the new cultures he encountered, the jazz of New Orleans, Mexican archaeological sites, Native American totems. Three major themes ran through his work: the cities that were dear to him (Paris, Jerusalem, New York and Venice), the Bible, the woman-lover, erotic and immodest. Multidisciplinary, he is also known for his stained glass windows, his ceramics, his carborundum engravings, his sculptures. He even developed a technique for producing lithographs in eighteen to twenty colors. The artist is internationally recognized, and his works are present in numerous private collections, companies and museums around the world. Source: https://www.frenchartcollection.com/