Arbit Blatas - chronicler of the Paris School
 

In 1986 in Paris, Bourdelle Museum organized an exhibition entitled "Blatas and the Paris School. What kind of artist (admit it, we Glasha he was completely ignorant to how she accidentally found a catalog of the exhibition)?
Along the way, surprised that Arbit Blatas, apparently, was completely unconnected with the interests of the Russian market iskuusstva (us-what? We private people with us and demand does not exist) and we can argue chrto in the not too distant time, this will be corrected nespravedlivot .

As explained in the text of the catalog, Arbit Blatas (1908-1999) was a native of Lithuania, from a family of Russian Jews. In France, he came from Germany, where his father, a merchant of musical instruments, poslale him to study painting. Immediately after his arrival he met and became friends with artists working in Paris, Russian-Soutine, Lipschitz Zadkine, Flint, Chagall - and non-Russian - Bonnard, Vuillard, Picasso, Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, Marquet, Matisse, Utrillo - origin, and that is our top priority, he wrote, molded, cast their portraits - so he entered the School of Paris ".

During the war years Blatas had to leave in the U.S., after the liberation of France, he then lived in New York, then in Paris, and regularly exhibited in major galleries in Paris, New York and London.
His works are in museums such as "Jeu de Pom", "Orangerie", New York Met, Whitney Museum, MoMA, the Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, the Museum of Modern Art in Venice, the National Museum of Cornish, etc.

1. Blatas and Keesling (photo)
2. Picasso, Blatas and their friends in Ceret (photo)
3. Blatas and his friends from the Paris School. 1970, s /m, 162h130
4. Cafe Le House. 1938, paper /gouache, 21,5 h33, 5
5. Portrait of Pierre Bonnard. 1938, s /m, 54,5 х38
6. Portrait of Alberto Giacometti. 1952, s /m, 81,5 x64, 5
7. Portrait of Albert Marquet. 1946, s /m, 81.5 h65
8. Portrait of Henri Matisse. 1939, s /m, 99,5 h79, 5
9. Portrait of Chaim Soutine. 1939, s /m, 170h97
10. Portrait of Maurice de Vlaminck. 1948, s /m, 102h70, 5

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1. Portrait of Edouard Vuillard. 1937, s /m, 65,5 x50
2. Portrait of Maurice Utrillo. 1948, s /m, 101,5 h65
3. Portrait of Osip Zadkine. 1963, s /m, 120h88
4. Portrait of Georges Braque. 1962, s /m, 89.5 h66
5. Portrait of Marc Chagall. 1943, s /m, 96.5 h49, 5
6. Who is that? Well, this is Jean Cocteau, written, as it should, oil on canvas, size 92,5 h75
7. Portrait of Andre Derain. 1946, s /m, 81,5 x64, 5
8. Kees van Dongen portrait. X /m, 81.5 h66
9. Portrait of Raoul Dufy. 1946, s /m, 71h40, 5
10. Portrait of Leonard Fujita. 1937, c /m, 8,5 х14

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1. Portrait of Marcel Gromer. 1963, s /m, 100h64
2. Portrait Pinkhus flint. 1965, s /m, 82h65
3. Portrait of Jacques Lipschitz. 1964, c /m, 92,5 x64, 5
4. Portrait of Fernand Leger. 1943, s /m, 91.5 h54
5. Portrait of Aristide Maillol. 1938, s /m, 110h65
6. Portrait of Immanuel Mane-Katz. 1948 s /m, 96h64, 5
7. Portrait of Sigmund Menkes. 1948, s /m, 81h66
8. Portrait of Pablo Picasso. 1952, s /m, 91.5 h54
9. Portrait of Suzanne Valadon. 1937, s /m, 192h80
10. The sculptural portrait of Derain. 1946, bronze, 127h54h40
11. The sculptural portrait Utrillo.1948 PM, bronze, 95h33h33
12. The sculptural portrait of Soutine. 1938, bronze, 180h60h65

This name is Nehemiah Arbitblat.
On the territory of the Venetian Ghetto Monument to Holocaust victims is working Arbit Blatasa.

Arbitration blatas
 

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