Tobiasse: Artist in Exile

Rizzoli Hardcover with 200 pages. - 323 Illustrations, including 202 in color. - An unusual and beautiful monograph combines the work of an internationally known contemporary French artist, Theo Tobiasse, with the writing of a world famous author Chaim Potok. Brought to Paris from Israel as a child, Tobiasse was educated and did his first drawing before WW II. His Jewish family's survival through two terrifying years spent hidden from the Nazis in a Paris apartment is part of the extraordinary text which Potok has so sensitively crafted. Tobiasse puts his innermost feelings into almost all his works and his little "secret," entrusted only to his paintings: a personal message which he writes in Yiddish and then glues onto the canvas before painting or collaging over it. No one will ever know the message without destroying the painting itself.