Untitled 65 by IGAEL TUMARKIN (1933-2021)
Mixed media on board
152 x 63 cm (59 ⅞ x 24 ¾ inches)
Signed and dated lower left, Tumarkin 65 Numbered 'No6' on the reverse
This work is from the most important period of Israeli artist Tumarkin during his time in Paris.
Artist biography
Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Yigal Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany in 1933. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theatre actor and director. With his mother, Berta Gurevitch, and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, Tumarkin immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. He served in the Israeli Sea Corps and, after completing his military service, studied sculpture with Rudi Lehman in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel.
In 1955, Tumarkin went to Berlin to work as a scenographer for Bertolt Brecht...
Category
1960s Abstract Mixed Media