PROVENANCE:
Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
Private collection, Asia

ILLUSTRATED:
Tobiasse: Voyage vers I'amour et la liberté , Dimensions Art Center, Taipei, 1991, color illustrated, no. G-7, p. 20

Théo Tobiasse moved to Paris in 1931 with his Lithuanian parents. From 1942 to 1944, during which Paris was occupied by the Nazi, Tobiasse and his family was forced to hide in an apartment for 2 years. Tobiasse had worked as a graphic designer for advertising for 15 years. In 1961, he won the Grand Prize of Young Mediterranean painting and had decided to fully devote into art. In 1982, he was awarded the Medal of the City of Paris and the Honorary Citizen of the city of the New Orleans. The decoration art “La vie est une fête” which he created for Chapelle Saint- Sauveur in Le Cannet is now a well-known local attraction. His artwork had been collected by Saint-Paul-de-Vence in France, the Esplanade Sephardic Synagogue in Strasbourg, Musée d’art moderne et art contemporain in Nice, and Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.