Ferdie Pacheco

ECUMENICAL IMPASSE (JUDAICA ART)

1979

Offset lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 500. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Al...

Offset lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 500. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. Please note our gallery has more than 1 of this artwork in stock and the exact edition number you may receive may be different than pictured. About the artist: Born in Tampa, Florida on December 8, 1927 with deep ancestral roots in Spain. Ferdie Pacheco...

This painting is iconic of Pichas Shaar's aesthetic, and stylistic influences. A ceramic mosaicist and sculptor as well as a painter, Shaars strong decorative sense was evident in his colorful canvas, with their frequent rectilinear geometry, depicting stylized figures, often mythological or biblical subjects. Pinchas Shaar (born Szwarc, later Shaar) was born in Lodz, Poland in 1923. already at a young age he drew small graffiti and characters of fairy tales. at sixteeen he met the Polish painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, a disciple of the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, who encouraged Pinchas’ artistic education. Strzeminski encouraged Pinchas' artistic education and introduced him to the works of such painters as Picasso, Leger, Matisse, and Mondrian. Pinchas had his first exhibition in 1938 and also completed photomontages for a poetry book by Moshe Broderson that was published in 1939. Then, in September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On February 1940 the Jews of Lodz had to move to a ghetto and perform forced labor. The artist experienced the horrors of war and the Nazi holocaust concentration camps. Pinchas worked in a prefabricated furniture factory. However, after his artistic abilities were discovered, he became a draftsman. He also designed decorations for the ghetto's theater. In 1944 the Germans liquidated the Lodz ghetto...

Title: (Jewish) Ritual (Hebrew, Kapparot) Artist: Jerome Kaplan Publisher: Tamarind Lithography Workshop Inc. Printer:Joseph Zirker Date: 1962 Media: Three Color Lithograph From Two Stones And One Zinc Plate Dimensions: 48.3 x 65.1 cm (sheet) This important piece is in a number of Museum collections. Jerome Kaplan (1920-1997) taught printmaking at the Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts, for 40 years. His works are in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Gallery, Library of Congress, and Museum of Modern Art. He was closely connected with The Print Club for 40 years, and was awarded the Lessing J. Rosenwald Prize at the Philadelphia Printmakers Annual in 1951, Max Katzman Prize in 1956, and the Experts Choice in 1963. This Judaic drypoint etching (as reproduced in the Philadelphia Inquirer on February 6, 1966) of the Academy of Music is part of Kaplan’s “Twelve Philadelphia Views...