YONA LOTAN Sketchbook Painting + Modern Israel Art Europe Paris Modernism Jewish

Description: YONA LOTAN Sketchbook Painting + Modern Israel Art Europe Paris Modernism Jewish YONA LOTAN SKETCHBOOK 16 DRAWINGS / SKETCHES includ 2 LOTAN PHOTOGRAPHS & LOTAN CATALOG & BROCHUREof Modern Israel & Paris Artist. 1) Sketchbook: Watercolor, Gouache, pastels and inkThe first drawing signed and dated Paris 3.8.75 Possibly preparation sketches for large paintings.Some sketches very much characterize the urban Landscape & Cafes in his semi abstract paintings.Dated: 1975Sizes: ~ 21 X 27 cm. Condition: The cover & spine with some wear & tear. The pages slight browned/stained by time, otherwise fine. 2) Two photos of Lotan in his living room and in his study room in Jaffa.Signed by the photographer Efraim Erde on the back side.Dated on the back: 1969Sizes: 12.8 X 17.8 cm.Condition: The back very slight browned/stained by time, otherwise very fine. 3) Lotan "Graphic Work 1960-1965" Catalog Exhibition in Mendel Art Gallery & Civic Conservatory, January 1966, Saskatoon, CANADAIncludes 9 b&w photographs of Lotan's graphic works. 12 Pages with text about Yona Lotan by the art critics: Bernard Dorival, Eric Newton, Pierre Thee, Henry Bulawko, Miriam Tal, H. Adam, A.A. Kohler and more.Dated: 1966Sizes: 15.1 X 22.8 cm.Condition: Pages very slight browned/stained by time, otherwise very fine. 4) Yona Lotan "Art-Intime" Brochure Exhibition in Petit Palais, Geneve, Switzerland.Includes Lotan photo and price list of his works by lithographs, watercolors & gouache. Dated: 1976.Sizes: 17.3 X 25.8 cm.Condition: Slight browned/stained by time. YONA LOTAN well known Painter in Europe & United States. Yona Lotan (1926-1998) Jewish Engineer and Painter. Yona Lotan was born in Lithuania. The family moved to Tel-Aviv, Palestine in 1936. He served as a high-ranking officer in the Israeli Army and fought in the War of Independence. 1959 Started painting, self-taught outsider artist. He always had the unquenchable desire to draw. His one-man shows in Israel and Geneva were so successful that he left the army, sold all his belongings and moved to Paris in 1960 in order to devote his life to painting. His art was vibrant and he became well known, not only in Europe, but also in the United States. In 1965 he won the coveted Prize of Foreign Painting given by the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris. This painting is of the city and its crowds, human beings who love, dream and struggle: life that can never die. Retrospective Exhibition: 1997 Tel Aviv Museum. Work in the Pompidou Center in Paris. Along with Maryan, Avigdor Arikha, Mordechai Ardon and Yaacov Agam. he was part of a group of Jewish emigre artists who worked in Paris. Paintings of Lotan are contained in the collections of: Musee National d'Art Modern, Paris. Musee Municipal d'Art Modern, Paris. Museum Boymans, Rotterdam. Musee "Petit Chateau", Geneve. National Galerie, Berlin. Senatsversaltung fur Wissenschaft und Kunst, Berlin. Private collections in Israel, France, England, Brazil, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, Greece, Spain, Italy, Maxico, USA and Canada. One-Man Shows and Group Shows 1959 - "Young Painters Exhibitions", Tel-Aviv 1960 - Katz Gallery, Tel-Aviv Nora Gallery, Jerusalem La Maison Juive, Geneve 1961 - "Exhibition of Israely Artists", Tel-Aviv Museum "Ecole de Paris 1961"Galerie Charpentier, Paris 1962 - Galerie Camille Renaud, Paris Galerie Baden, Geneve "Ecole de Paris 1962" Galerie Charpentier, Paris Exposition d'Automne 1962, Paris 1963 - Brooke street, London Art Center, Oak Ridge, USA Exposition d'Automne 1963, Paris Galerie Huber, Zurich 1964 - Galerie Riquem, Paris Galerie Badan, Geneve 1965 - Nora Gallery, Jerusalem "Prix Pour Peintre Etranger" Musee National d'Art Modern, Paris. Vleme Exposition Internationale "Paris-Essonnes 1965", Juvesy, France 1966 - Art Center Saskatchevan, Canada Galerie Badan, Geneve Vleme Exposition Internationale "Paris-Essonnes 1966", Juvesy, France Mendel Art Gallery, Canada 1967 - Center Culturel France-Israel, Paris Exposition des Paintres Solidaires avec Israel, Paris Exposition des Contemporains Classiques et d'Avantgarde, Musee National d'Art Moderne Paris 1968 - Galerie Badan, Geneve Galerie de France, Paris 1969 - X Salon, Grands et Jeunes D'aujourd'hui, Paris Old Jaffa Gallery, Tel-Aviv Jaffa 1970 - Dix Artistes Contemporains, Musee du "Petit Palais", Geneve Modern Art Gallery Caesarea, Israel 1971 - Old Jaffa Gallery, Tel-Aviv Jaffa 1972 - Galerie d'Art Modern, Cleveland, Ohio Nora Gallery, Jerusalem Nottebohm, Hambourg, Allemagne Deligny Art Gallery, Miami-Beach, USA 1973 - Contemporary Art - Saluting 25th Anniversary of Israel, Denver Colorado. 1975 - Galerie Soleil Georges Bongers, Paris 1976 - Galerie Juana Mordot, Madrid Petit Palais, Geneve 1981 - Hammer Galleries, New York 1997 - Yona Lotan Retrospective Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum Shipping & Handling internationally: 35$ EMS (Registered & Insured air mail, worldwide). 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