Theo Tobiasse
Delire Bleu

Delire Bleu

Artist: Theo Tobiasse

Title: Delire Bleu

Year: circa 1999

Medium: Terragraph, Signed and numbered in ink

Edition: 67/199

Size: 32.5 in. x 41 in. (82.55 cm x 104.14 cm)

The Terragraph is a unique printing process, developed by Har-El Printers & Publishers and the Terragraph Atelier, in Jaffa Port. It combines advanced binding materials and the most basic pigment - sand. 

Théo Tobiasse born Tobias Eidesas ( 1927 – 2012) was a French painter, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor.

His work is known for his themes around the Bible, the Woman, and the Exile, often extended by his "pictorial words".

Theo Tobiasse was born in Jaffa, Israel. In 1931 His family encountered material difficulties and decided to return to Lithuania, then left for Paris. 

In July 1942, was forced to hide in an apartment in Paris for two years.

At the Liberation of Paris, he quickly started a career as an advertising graphic designer , and also produced tapestry cartoons, theater sets and window displays.

Self-taught, he studied the technique of the great masters in museums during his travels. 

The carborundum etching, the lithography, the windows, the pottery, the sculpture are all expression that explores the first tools in the workshop he had built at his home on the hills of Nice.

From 1964, Théo Tobiasse developed a more personal iconography drawn from his own memories of his childhood in Lithuania. The train, the one that takes his family from Kaunas to Paris, or the Jews to the camps, becomes a recurring motif, and memory is a major theme in his work.

Размеры:

104 x 82 см