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Zvi MilshteinChess Game Set French Israeli Surrealist Watercolor Gouache Paintingc.1960s
c.1960s
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This is a large hand signed mixed media paiting on Arches French paper. A chess game encounter. Figurative Abstract Expressionist painting.
Zwy Milshtein (Zvi Tzvi Milstein) BIOGRAPHY 1934 Born in Kishinev (Bessarabia) Russian, Romanian border region. He fled the Nazi Holocaust and in 1948 Arrived in Israel via Cyprus, where he studied with Rafael Ben Zvi. Studies in Tel Aviv with Mordecai Ardon, Aharon Avni, Moshe Mokadi and Marcel Janco founder of the Dada art movement. Studies at The Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem. 1956 Awarded a scholarship by the Israel American Fund.
In 1991, Roland Topor invited him to participate in the last exhibitions of the Panique group and collaborated in the review Le Fou Parle.
Select Group Exhibitions
1950 55 Israeli Artists Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum
1956 Cimaise de Paris,
1958 "School of Paris", Charpentier Gallery,
1959 Les Grands et les Jeunes Aujourd hui Salon National
1960 Les Grands et les Jeunes d Aujourd hui Contemporary Israeli Art, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1961 Russian Artists of the Paris School , Ecole du Paris
1961 Salon de la Jeune Peinture,
1964 Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
1965 Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris
1966 Lauréat for the Gravure du Prix de la Critique
1967 Biennale, Paris
1970 stay with Theodor Ahrenberg, the eminent Swedish art collector. MILSHTEIN has an exhibition at ARC, in the museum of modern art in Paris. Drawings suspended in a liquid contained in a bottle thus creating a three dimensional effect. 1978 An retrospective exhibition of his etchings engravings is held at the Bibliotheque Nationale; the publication of a book illustrated with 33 drawings : Le rite du chat, on exhibit at Artcurial in Paris.
Milshtein has also written several plays and has worked in etching intaglio carborundum, lithograph techniques. listed in adec artprice. He has exhibited at galleries in Germany, France and Switzerland with Theodore Theo Tobiasse, Mane Katz, Raya Sorkine, Avigdor Arikha and Abram Krol. A fine Judaica artist.
Since 2007 Milshtein has had his workshop in the Rhône in Gleizé where he also lives.
Personal exhibitions
1952: Tel Aviv (Israel), Studio Avni
1955: Tel Aviv (Israel), Museum
1957: Paris, Galerie Saint Placide
1958: Paris, La Cave de la Galerie Saint-Placide - Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff
1959: Tel Aviv (Israel), Museum Dizengoff House
1960: Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff
1962: Tel Aviv (Israel), Chemerinsky Art Gallery - Jerusalem (Israel), Musée National Bezalel —New York (United States), Bodley Gallery - Bat Yam (Israel), Bat Yam Museum
1963: Geneva (Switzerland), Museum of Art and History, Cabinet des Estampes
1964: Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff
1965: Paris, Librairie-Galerie Alexandre Loewy
1966: Paris, Galerie Saint-Placide - Brussels (Belgium), Galerie Le Creuset
1966: Washington (United States) Brentano's Museum Shop - New York (United States), The New Masters Gallery
1967: Paris, Galerie Kieffer
1968: Tel-Aviv (Israel), The Tel-Aviv Museum - Dizengoff House - London (Great Britain), London Graphic Arts Gallery
1970: Paris, ARC, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
1971: Brussels (Belgium), Galerie L'Angle Aigu
1973: Rome (Italy) Galleria San Sebastianello - Lausanne (Switzerland), White Galerie
1974: Paris, Galerie Georges Visat
1975: Tel Aviv (Israel), Museum —Paris, Entente Bookstore —Lausanne (Switzerland), Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts —Odense (Denmark), Fyns Stifts Kunstmuseum
1976: Tel Aviv (Israel), Darom Gallery - Odense (Denmark), Maison des Artistes
1977: Paris, Scriptorium Gallery - Odense (Denmark), Schiang Gallery
1978: Paris, National Library - Paris, Artcurial
1979: Troyes, Thibaud de Champagne Cultural Center - Paris, Galerie Negru
1980: Tel Aviv (Israel), Rosenfeld Gallery
1982: Tel Aviv (Israel), Rosenfeld Gallery - Paris, Galerie Peinture Fraîche
1983: Créteil, Maison des Arts
1984: Issy-les-Moulineaux, Galerie Alain Gutharc & Muriel Schnebert —Rouen, Librairie Galerie Ponctuation —Paris, TWA - Paris, Galerie Caroline Corre —New Haven (United States), Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven - Paris, Academy from Sèvres
1985: Enghien, Galerie Alain Gutharc & Gigi Lacorre —Saint-Brieuc, Center for Cultural Action —Nîmes, Chapelle de la Salamandre —Orléans, Gallery La Chèvre qui danse —Paris, Galerie Pierre Lescot —Mâcon, Maison de la Culture —Stockholm (Sweden), Arte Atrium Gallery
1986: Grenoble, Galerie Jean-Marie Cupillard —Odense (Denmark), Brandts Kleiderfabrik - New York (United States), Gallery 44 —Göteborg (Sweden), Galleri Mustad - Genève (Switzerland), Galerie Kara
1987: Malmö (Sweden), Institut Français —Annecy, Center for Cultural Action —Zürich (Switzerland), Galerie Klopfer —Stockholm (Sweden), Institut Français —Basel (Switzerland), Art 18'87, Galerie Goldman - Haifa —Basel (Switzerland), Art 18'87, Galerie Kara-Genève, —Stockholm (Sweden), Art Fair, Galerie Mustad - Göteborg, Stockholm (Sweden), Galerie Gummesons —Bocholt (Germany), Galerie am Finkenbusch / Siedlaczek
1988: Tel Aviv (Israel), Gallery Rosenfeld - Sundsvall (Sweden), Sundsvalls Museum - Montbéliard, Center for Contemporary Art —Montbéliard, Château Museum —Hérouville, Theater —Genève (Switzerland), Galerie Kara —Valencia (Spain) , Interarte —Madrid (Spain), Arco
1989: Paris, SAGA, Galerie Jacqueline Felman - Paris, Horgen (Switzerland), Galerie Murbach - Montbéliard, Galerie Le Present - Toulouse, Artothèque
1990: Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff —Paris, Galerie Expression —Evry, Aire Libre Contemporary Art —Nice, Galerie Chifflet
1991: Paris, Galerie Jean Briance —Montbrison, Musée d'Allard —Besançon, Galerie Médicis —Le Havre, Galerie Slotine-Perkowsky —Lyon, Galerie Hermès
1992: Nice, Galerie Chifflet - Bätterkinden (Switzerland), Galerie Zur Krone - Paris, CIES
1993: Saint-Quentin, Espace Saint-Jacques —Paris, Area —Paris, Renaud Richebourg Gallery —Moscow (Russia), Maison de la Presse
1995: Troyes, Museum of Modern Art - Paris, Area - Fécamp, Palais Bénédictine
1996: Warsaw, Krolokania Museum - Bourges, House of Culture
1997: Paris, Les Filles du Calvaire Gallery —Corbeil-Essonnes, Commanderie Saint-Jean —Paris, Area —Paris, Espace Rachi
1998: Frankfurt, Goethe Institute
1999: London, Bourlet Gallery
2000: Paris, Area —Kiev (Ukraine) Museum of Russian Art —Cluj (Romania), French Institute —Cergy Pontoise, Hôtel d'Agglomération —Kichinev (Moldova), Museum —Luzern (Switzerland), Diebold-Schilling Gallery
2001: Sopot (Poland), Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki - Vienna (Austria), Galerie Hofstätter -
2002: Olsztyn (Poland), Galerie Sztuki Dwa - Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg
2003: Metz, Metz Culture House - Denmark, Galleri M - Mougins, Galerie Dans le Ciel - Warsaw (Poland), theatrical performance "The Song of the Dog" in Polish Warsaw
2004: Geneva (Switzerland), Galerie ligne thirteen - Caen,
2009 - Gleizé, Theatrical performance Le chant du chien troupe Amavada - Colombes, Théâtre de l'Avant-Scène - Paris, Dorothy's gallery Art Stories fantasmes revealed - Saulxures lès Bulgnéville, Château de Saulxures lès Bulgnéville - Ville sur Jarnioux, Galerie Cybulski - Lyon , Museum of Castings
2010: Reims, “Vents d'Est, Vents d'Ouest”: large retrospective - Vichy, 8th world triennial of printmaking and original engraving - Reims, Canard Duchène thematic exhibition - Saint Étienne, Serres des Beaux Arts– Gleizé , Heritage Day at the workshop (old tractors) - Caen, exhibition with Amavada
2011: Paris, Area - Fermeture eclair - Paris Cabaret Milshtein Vodka, Russian paintings and puppets
2012: Sens, “Get your papers!”, Exhibition at the Sens museum - Décines, le Toboggan - Lyon, Galerie Pallade - Fareins, Collection de la Praye - Trouville, “the bedroom of wonders” - Paris, Mairie du 10th -
2013: Ville sur Jarnioux, Galerie Chybulski and Edition of the book “les grenouilles d'Aristophane” - Paris, CHIFRA exhibition
2014: Paris, Galerie des Patriarches - Lyon, Stage curtain Théâtres des Celestins - Saint Briac, Galerie la boucherie - Caen, exhibition and play (anniversary) with Amavada - Montreuil, Les hivernales
2015: Paris, Galerie Corcia - Seyne sur mer, Villa Tamaris - Villeurbanne, Liberal Synagogue Keren Or - Vogüé, Château
2016: Metz, European Days of Jewish Culture-Lorraine Metz - Cybulski Gallery (Hinter dem Rathaus Wismar Germany Gallery and Utopia in Rome)
2017: Paris, Corcia Gallery
Select Public collections in France and abroad
Brookings (United States)
Brussels (Belgium) Royal Library
Champagne-Ardenne Regional Fund for Contemporary Art
Dusseldorf (Germany) Kunstverein
Eilat (Israel) Museum of Modern Art
Geneva (Switzerland) Museum of Art and History
Gothenburg (Sweden) Museum
Jaffa (Israel) Museum
Jerusalem (Israel) Bezalel Museum
Lausanne (Switzerland) Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts
New-York (United States) Moma, the Museum of Modern Art
Odense (Denmark) Museum
Paris National Library of France
Paris National Center for the Plastic Arts
Paris Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
Paris Center Pompidou, Kandinsky Library
Tel Aviv (Israel) Museum
Troyes Museum of Modern Art
Toulon Museum - Donation Alin Avila (1993)
Villeurbanne - Synagogue Libérale Keren Or
- Creator:Zvi Milshtein (1934, French, Russian)
- Creation Year:c.1960s
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)
- Medium:
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- Condition:minor wear, one small repaired tear in margin easily matted out. minor remnants of previous matting verso.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38214705872
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