Yona Lotan Art
Lithuanian, 1926-1998
Yona Lotan is an engineer and painter born in Lithuania in 1926. He immigrated in 1936 with his family and settled in Tel Aviv. In 1950, after studying at the Technion, he joined the army, serving with the Engineering Corps until 1961. In the late 1950s, Lotan began painting as a self-taught artist. He died in 1998.
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MODERNIST ABSTRACT Signed Lithograph, Matisse Style Flowers Shapes Metallic Gold
By Yona Lotan
Located in Union City, NJ
MODERNIST ABSTRACT is an original hand drawn lithograph by the Lithuanian/Israeli artist, Yona Lotan (1926 - 1998). Lively modern abstract composition of multicolor Matisse-style flowers and shapes printed in visually appealing shades of lavender, purple, green, peach, burgundy, blue, pink, yellow, and metallic gold ink on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. MODERNIST ABSTRACT features playful organic shapes, including flowers, breasts, human body shapes, intermingled with rhythmic geometric forms creating a visually compelling composition with metallic gold ink adding a slight shimmer to this impressive, imaginative design.
Print size - 26 x 20 in. unframed, excellent condition, hand signed in pencil by the artist Yona Lotan.
Edition size - 225, plus proofs
Year - 1977
About the artist-
Yona Lotan (1926-1998) Jewish engineer and painter was born in Lithuania.
His family moved to Tel-Aviv, Palestine in 1936. He served as a high-ranking officer in the Israeli Army and fought in the War of Independence. In 1959 Yona Lotan began painting; he's considered a self-taught, outsider artist.
Lotan always had the unquenchable desire to draw. His one-man shows in Israel and Geneva were so successful that he left the army, sold all his belongings and moved to Paris in 1960 in order to devote his life to painting.
His art was vibrant and he became well known, not only in Europe, but also in the United States.
In 1965 he won the coveted Prize of Foreign Painting given by the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
Along with Maryan, Avigdor Arikha, Mordechai Ardon and Yaacov Agam. he was part of a group of Jewish emigre
artists who worked in Paris.
Paintings of Lotan are contained in the collections of:
Musee National d'Art Modern, Paris,
Pompidou Center, Paris
Musee Municipal d'Art Modern, Paris.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam. Musee "Petit Chateau",
Geneve. National Galerie, Berlin.
Senatsversaltung fur Wissenschaft und Kunst, Berlin.
Private collections in Israel, France, England, Brazil,
Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, Greece, Spain, Italy, Mexico, USA and Canada.
One-Man Shows and Group Shows:
1959 - "Young Painters Exhibitions", Tel-Aviv
1960 - Katz Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Nora Gallery, Jerusalem, La Maison Juive, Geneve
1961 - "Exhibition of Israeli Artists", Tel-Aviv Museum
"Ecole de Paris 1961" Galerie Charpentier, Paris
1962 - Galerie Camille...
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This is an oil on canvas. it is unsigned. Yona Lotan (1926-1998) Engineer and Painter. Yona Lotan was born in Lithuania. The family moved to Tel-Aviv, Palestine in 1936. He served as...
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Yona Lotan (1926-1998) Engineer and Painter. Yona Lotan was born in Lithuania. The family moved to Tel-Aviv, Palestine in 1936. He served as a high-ranking officer in the Israeli Arm...
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1960s Abstract Yona Lotan Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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