Eugene Abeshaus

"Shabbat Comes and Joy Fills the House" Post Soviet Judaica Etching Hand Colored

1978

Hand-Colored Etching signed in pencil l.m. in Hebrew, l.r. in English. 3/100 Shalom from Yevgeny Abeshaus EUGENE ABESHAUS Leningrad, Russia, b. 1939, d. 2008 Eugene Abeshaus (also ...

EUGENE ABESHAUS Leningrad, Russia, (1939-2008) Hand-Colored, with watercolor painting, Etching hand signed in pencil in English and Hebrew Numbered 47/110 Framed 21.5 x 16. image 13.5 x 9 Eugene Abeshaus (also spelled Evgeny Abezgauz, Евгений Абезгауз in Russian; 1939–2008) was a Jewish artist who worked in Russia (then USSR) and Israel. Born in Leningrad to a typical intelligentsia family, Abeshaus was educated as an electrical engineer but soon abandoned this career and enrolled in the Mukhina School for Applied Art. By the time of his graduation from the famous “Mukha” (Fly in Russian), he had already developed a critical stance towards the official Soviet art dominated by the Communist ideology and began exhibiting at semi-underground exhibitions. This was culminated by his taking part in a famous 1975 exhibition at the Nevsky Palace of Culture. Abeshaus was fired from his job and censured by the official press – which however admitted his "artistic taste, a good sense of color and form". Soon afterwards, Abeshaus set up, together with several Jewish artists, the Alef Group and became its leader. The group’s first exhibition in November 1975 was held at Abeshauses’ small apartment. According to the Alef Manifesto written by Alek Rapoport, “We are trying to conquer the influence of small-town Jewish art and find sources for our work in deeper, wiser, and more spiritual European culture, and from it build a bridge to today and tomorrow". He was part of a generation of Russian, mostly Jewish artist's that included Oskar Rabin, Evgeny Rukhin...

Sidney Chafetz Print Catalogue Raisonné. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. Medium: Lithograph. Print Image Size: 21 3/4 x 26 1/4 inches. Print Edition: 10. This is not signed or number...

Sidney Chafetz Print Catalogue Raisonné. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. Variant Date: 1999. Medium: Lithograph. Print Image Size: 28 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches. Print Edition: no edition (with 1 artist's proof). Alternate Medium: Color lithograph. Ink(s): blue, yellow, black. Support: Rives wove paper. Gene and Irma Silverman, embracing on a sunny day in the park. Text at the bottom reads "Goddard Park, R.I., July, 1940. Irma Cohen and Gene Silverman. Married January 1941, parents of 3 children...

Black and white original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “Arist Proof” lower left in pencil. Signed by the artist lower righ...

Black and white original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “Artist Proof lower left in pencil. Signed by the artist lower righ...

Original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “AP” lower left for artist proof in pencil. Signed by the artist lower right in pen...

Hand colored original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “AP” lower left for artist proof in pencil. Signed by the artist lower...