Igael Tumarkin

Untitled

1960

Signed and dated 'Al Held 61' (lower right) Price: $75,000 (+5% import VAT) Provenance: Robert Miller Gallery, New York (stock no.1179359 HELD-0075) Private collection, New York Private collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2012) Exhibited: New York, Queens Museum; Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum; Maine, Portland Museum of Art; Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection...

Price: $75,000 (+5% import VAT) Provenance: Robert Miller Gallery, New York Private collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1980) Exhibited: Montpellier, Musee Fabre, "...

signed and dated 'A. Istrati, 65' (lower left); signed, dated and located 'A Istrati, 1965, Mairie XIV' (on the verso) Provenance Private collection, Paris

oil on canvas

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Untitled 65 by IGAEL TUMARKIN (1933-2021) Mixed media on board 152 x 63 cm (59 ⅞ x 24 ¾ inches) Signed and dated lower left, Tumarkin 65 Numbered 'No6' on the reverse This work is from the most important period of Israeli artist Tumarkin during his time in Paris. Artist biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Yigal Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany in 1933. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theatre actor and director. With his mother, Berta Gurevitch, and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, Tumarkin immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. He served in the Israeli Sea Corps and, after completing his military service, studied sculpture with Rudi Lehman in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel. In 1955, Tumarkin went to Berlin to work as a scenographer for Bertolt Brecht...

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