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Shaoul Smira
1980's Large Modernist Israeli Film Noir Figures Lithograph Neo-Expressionism

1985

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Shaoul Smira (Israeli, b. 1939) City Light Publisher, San Francisco. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) signed "SMIRA" in pencil l.r. and numbered "86/100" in pencil l.l., Color lithograph on Arches paper with watermarks, deckled edges. Shaoul Smira is an American artist. Shaoul smira moved to Israel from Iraq as a child in 1951, found his métier in art and received his training in Tel Aviv, Israel at the Avni Art Institute. Lauded as the Marc Chagall of israel. In 1965 he moved to Paris and continued his studies in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. These endeavors progressed in 1971 when Smira attended the Antwerp Academy to study etching and in 1976 when he attended workshops in Belgium to study the process of cast paper work. Smira also attended workshops in 1985 at the Atelier Mourlot for series of lithos. His work is influenced by the Italian Transavanguardia movement, artists such as Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, Mimmo Paladino, and other Neo-expressionism artists such as Kitaj, Elvira Bach, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub and David Salle. Shaoul Smira has an impressive biography and has been lauded and written about by many prominent art critics and museum directors, including Gerard Goodrow from the Ludwig Museum in Koln, Jan Fonce from the Mucka Museum in Belgium, Yigal Zalmona The Chief Curator of the Israel Museum, Amnon Barzel, Director of the Prato Museum, Italy, as well as art critics Franz Bonders from Palle De Beaux-Arts, Belgium and Donald Kuspit, a Professor of Art and Philosophy from New York. Smira has been living and working in New York since 1978. SELECT EXHIBITIONS Gallery el Museo, Bogotá, Colombia Gallery Cecelia, Gonzales, Lima, Peru National Museum, Lima, Peru America House, Köln, Germany El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia Art International, Miami, USA The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel I.C.C., Hasselt, Belgium International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium: Menashe Kadishman, Shaoul Smira and Uri Lifshits Exhibition Keith Green Gallery, New York, USA Lavigne Bastille Gallery, Paris, France Bank Pariba Art Gallery, Antwerp Belgium Olympia Hall, Art International, London, UK Gallery Poisedon, Knokke, Belgium Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokkle, Belgium Campo Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Allen Rich Gallery, New York, USA Tamara Pfeiffer Gallery, Brussels Gallery 44, Brussels, Belgium Galerie de Eik, Antwerp Belgium Galerie International, Tel Aviv, Israel Gallery 40, Amsterdam, Holland Gallery 119, Tel Aviv, Israel Galerie de la Madeleine, Brussels, Belgium Chemerinsky Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Blue Palet, Paris, France Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel International Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel City Hall of Tel Aviv, Israel COLLECTIONS Skirball Museum, L.A., USA Frederic Weisman Foundation, L.A., USA American House, Koln, Germany American House, Brussels, Belgium National Museum, Lima, Peru American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium Syracuse University, New York, USA Paribas Bank, Brussels, Belgium National Television, Lima, Peru City of Brussels, Belgium Broffman Center, Montreal, Canada JP Morgan Bank, Brussels, Belgium JP Morgan, Frankfurt, Germany Paribas Bank, Antwerp, Belgium American Library, Brussels, Belgium Rockefeller Art Center, New York, USA Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada Alliance Francaise, Paris, France Musee d'Art Contemporain, Skopje, Yugoslavia Legano Museum of Modern Art, Italy Museum voor Schone, Kunsten, Oostende, Belgium Verzameling van het Ministerie van Belgium Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Brussels, Belgium ICC, Antwerp, Belgium City Hall of Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Creator:
    Shaoul Smira (1939, Iraqi, Israeli)
  • Creation Year:
    1985
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 28.25 in (71.76 cm)Width: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38214034322

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