Theo Tobiasse - Litho: Grapes of Canaan

Lithograph by Theo Tobiasse. Title: Grapes of Canaan. From the folder: Diaspora(Spreading). Dimensions sheet: H76 x w54cm. Dimensions image: H60 x w46cm. The work is signed at the bottom right "Theo Tobiasse" and "59/135" in pencil, titled in the image. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

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Théo Tobiasse, born Tobias Eidesas (April 26, 1927 – November 3, 2012) was a French painter, engraver, illustrator and sculptor.

His first canvases were exhibited at the Salon des Peintres du Sud-Est in 1960. He won the 1961 "Prize for Young Mediterranean Painting" and Armand Drouant offered him a first contract and exhibited it at the Galerie du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris in 1962.[3]

Théo Tobiasse also won the Dorothy Gould Prize in 1961. He then decided to devote himself exclusively to visual arts. Many exhibitions have been devoted to him all over the world, in Paris at the Drouant Gallery, in Geneva, Montreal or Tokyo, then in London, Zurich, Lauzanne, Los Angeles, Kiev and then a first solo exhibition in New York (1968). As an autodidact, he studied the technique of the great masters in museums during his travels. In particular, the reliefs, glazes and colours of Rembrandt's The Jewish Bride in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam open up new technical possibilities that he explores in his paintings, back in his studio.

The figurative subjects without narrative or symbolism (cat, bird, kite, velocipede, etc.) of his first paintings allow him to experiment with the techniques, colour and texture of oil and gouache paintings, Le Vélocipède (1959), Le Chat de Vence (1961), L'Oiseau rouge (1964), The night of the bird (1960).

From 1964 onwards, Théo Tobiasse developed a more personal iconography, derived from his own memories of his youth in Lithuania, the wanderings of a family in search of an asylum country and the Shoah. The train, the one that takes his family from Kaunas to Paris, or the Jews to the camps, becomes a recurring motif and memory an important theme in his work. It was in 42, the train of 16 July, oil on canvas, (1965)