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By Yvette Szczupak-Thomas
1929-2003 |
| Category - Estate of Yvette Szczupak-Thomas, October 20th 2010. |
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Description
Dialogue, signed (lower right)
Technique
Oil on plywood
Date Created
Before 1955
Dimensions
102 x 80 cm
Provenance
Estate of Yvette Szczupak-Thomas
Click here to read her bio
Condition
Good, minor cracks on the center left edge.
Exhibitions
"Yvette Szczupak-Thomas, Huiles, Aquarelles et Gouaches", December 1955, National Museum Bezalel, Jerusalem, lot no. 4 in the catalogue (illustrated).
Biography
Yvette Szczupak-Thomas (1929-2003) Painter, Sculptor, Writer and Poet.
Born in 1929 in Burgundy, France, Yvette was soon placed in foster care, where she suffered physical and mental abuse. She was replaced with a more caring family in Vezelay, where she began to study and draw. She soon impressed Christian Zervos, an art collector, patron writer and publisher, who adopted her in 1942.
Yvette's became part of the milieu of leading French artists and intellectuals of the day, such as Georges Braque, Paul Eluard, Georges Batailles and Constantin Brancusi. She was tutored by the Zervos' friends, including Pablo Picasso and Louis Fernand, and later attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
After WWII Yvette deeply sympathized with the fate of the Jews and soon began identifying herself as Jewish. In 1949 she met an Israeli lawyer, Shmuel Alexander Szczupak, 30 years her elder, and romance ensued. This early chapter of her life is the focus of Yvette's memoirs: "Un Diamant brut, Vézelay – Paris, 1938-1950" Ed. Métailié, 2008.
Yvette immigrated to Israel in 1950, converted to Judaism, married Shmuel Szczupak and began her life as an artist. Yvette Szcupak-Thomas became a prolific, multidisciplinary artist and began exhibiting in solo and collective shows in Israel from 1955, including with "New Horizons". She also participated in many international exhibits, such as the Paris Biennale of Young Artists, and won various awards, such as the 1962 Jerusalem Prize and the 1965 Vichy Medal. During the 6-Day War Yvette was a volunteer paramedic in Magen David Adom and took an active part in its caring for the civilian wounded and dead during the fighting. This resulted in a celebrated series of drawings and woodcuts depicting the horrors of warfare. Amongst her various projects, Yvette designed film sets, illustrated books for the Bialik publication and penned French poetry books and children's stories in Hebrew. She died in 2003 in Jerusalem.
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Dialogue
Estimate: $5,000/$7,000
Location: Israel
Number of Bids: 3
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