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THEO TOBIASSE (1927-2012)
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THEO TOBIASSE (1927-2012)
La danseuse et le coq noir, 1968
Oil on canvas, signed on the center left, dated on the upper center and titled lower right
55 x 46 cm
21 11/16 x 18 1/8 in.
We thank Mrs Catherine Faust-Tobiasse for having kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Dubaï
Théo Tobiasse
Born 1927 in Jaffa, Palestine during the British mandate, Théo Tobiasse is a French painter, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. His mother’s death, followed by the outbreak of the Second World War, the German occupation of Paris, wearing the yellow star and being expleed from the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs on racial grounds, upended his life. In 1961 he won the "prize for young Mediterranean painting". Armand Drouant offered him a first contract and showed his works at the Galerie du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris in 1962. Many exhibitions were devoted to him worldwide, from Paris at the Drouant Gallery to Geneva, Montreal, Tokyo, London, Zurich, Lausanne, Los Angeles, Kiev and, finally, his first solo show in New York.
All My Life I Have Carried a Caravan in My Belly is emblematic of the artist’s whimsical, childlike world combining laughter and tears, sun and darkness, in the context of extraordinary hope. The characters in this delightful, childlike scene look radiant yet astonishingly grotesque, even nightmarish
The Dancer and the Black Rooster also features ambivalence between a magical imaginary world and anguish. The gap between the motifs’ naivety, the girl's smile and her disturbing deformity, combined with thick layers of dark paint, make the mood oppressive but surprisingly revealing of Tobiasse's story.
La danseuse et le coq noir, 1968
Oil on canvas, signed on the center left, dated on the upper center and titled lower right
55 x 46 cm
21 11/16 x 18 1/8 in.
We thank Mrs Catherine Faust-Tobiasse for having kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Dubaï
Théo Tobiasse
Born 1927 in Jaffa, Palestine during the British mandate, Théo Tobiasse is a French painter, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. His mother’s death, followed by the outbreak of the Second World War, the German occupation of Paris, wearing the yellow star and being expleed from the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs on racial grounds, upended his life. In 1961 he won the "prize for young Mediterranean painting". Armand Drouant offered him a first contract and showed his works at the Galerie du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris in 1962. Many exhibitions were devoted to him worldwide, from Paris at the Drouant Gallery to Geneva, Montreal, Tokyo, London, Zurich, Lausanne, Los Angeles, Kiev and, finally, his first solo show in New York.
All My Life I Have Carried a Caravan in My Belly is emblematic of the artist’s whimsical, childlike world combining laughter and tears, sun and darkness, in the context of extraordinary hope. The characters in this delightful, childlike scene look radiant yet astonishingly grotesque, even nightmarish
The Dancer and the Black Rooster also features ambivalence between a magical imaginary world and anguish. The gap between the motifs’ naivety, the girl's smile and her disturbing deformity, combined with thick layers of dark paint, make the mood oppressive but surprisingly revealing of Tobiasse's story.