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Jacques Zucker
"Rockport Quarry" Impressionistic Oil Painting Landscape Overlooking Houses

1944

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This painting depicts a landscape of Rockport Quarry over looking houses on a cliff, with the water just below. This piece was painted in 1944 on sight with great gestural brushwork while capturing chiaroscuro wonderfully. The robust colors and dramatic lines are what makes this painting so attractive and desirable. The piece is done in a highly impressionistic manner with unique colors and expressions. This painting is a wonderful display of Zucker's more impressionistic styles, with bold colors of green, red, and with softer hints of white and blue. This painting has various tags on verso including the name of the artist with title of the piece and it comes housed on its original exhibition antique wood frame with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed. Art measures 27 x 33 inches Framed measures 36 x 43 inches Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled to Palestine to study fine arts at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. In 1917 he joined the British Royal Fuesiliers under the leadership of General Allenby to liberate Palestine from the Turks. After the first World War he settled in Paris, where he continued his studies at Académie Julian and Academie Colarossi. He then emigrated to the United States in 1922 and continued his art studies at the National Academy of Design. He supported himself by designing jewelry. In 1925 he returned to Paris and studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumier et Colarossi. During the Depression he worked for the WPA. From 1928 he took part in the Paris Salons: Autumn and the Tuileries. His works are expressionistic variations in the type of the Ecole de Paris. As a protégé of both Chaim Soutine and Renoir, hints of their style can be observed in much of his own work. Zucker’s style, that may have been influenced from the art of artists such as Marc Chagall, took pride in being an “internationalist”, standing the art of painting in its highest expression is universal no matter where the canvas was created. People who respond to quality in art will understand the beauty and meaning, in their own land or in a foreign land, this was his main idea behind his artworks that was exhibited in numerous solo show in leading galleries and museums in New York, Paris, Tel Aviv, and other art centers. Claude Roger-Marx of Figaro Litteraire, dean of French art critics, write a comprehensive study of Zucker’s illustrated with 135 color and black and white plates. He traveled widely, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Israel. From then on Zucker lived alternately in New York and Paris, maintaining homes in both places, and spent considerable time painting in Mexico, Portugal, Greece, and Israel. Zucker's post-impressionist works including town and landscapes, still-lives, and portraits, are part of an array of permanent installments in numerous museums and private collections in Tel Aviv, including the Joseph Hirschorn collection in Washington, D. C., the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and the Bezalel Art Museum in Jerusalem. In 1947 he settled in Arcueil near Paris. Zucker died in 1981 in New York. PROVENANCE: Jacques Zucker Estate; Private Collection New York City; Lilac Gallery Collection. The piece will be stamped from Lilac Gallery on its verso.
  • Creator:
    Jacques Zucker (1900 - 1981, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1944
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 43 in (109.22 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    With ordinary wear from age with a tiny pinhole lower right and some wear to surface, the frame also shows some signs of wear and scuffs from age, chips and minor imperfections in line with manufacturing period.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 0029371stDibs: LU9824698712
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