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Oct 24, 2015 - Oct 25, 2015
Itzchak Tarkay lithograph; depicting a woman lounging with a nautical landscape in the background; pencil signed to bottom right corner and numbered "116/350" to bottom left corner; double matted; measures approximately 30-1/2" x 27" with a decorative gilded frame and has a sight image of approximately 20-1/2" x 17". Itzchak Tarkay (1935 - 2012) was born in Subotica on the Yugoslav Hungarian border. When he was only nine years old, the Nazis sent Tarkay to Mauhausen concentration camp. After the war, he returned home and developed an interest in art. While still at school in Subotica, he won a prize for excellence in painting. In 1949 he and his family immigrated to Israel and were sent to a transit camp for new arrivals at Beer Ya'akov. Their next two years were spent in a Kibbutz. In 1951, Tarkay received a scholarship to the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, where he studied for a year before having to leave due to difficult financial circumstances at home. In order to continue his scholarship, he was allowed to study under the artist Schwartzman until his mobilization to the Israeli army. After returning
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