Albert Yohai

 1931, Alexandria, Egypt - 2008, Tel Aviv, Israel

Abstract Landscape, 1980s / 1990s
Original Hand-Signed Oil Chalks Painting


Artist Name: Albert Yohai


Title: Abstract Landscape

Signature Description: Hand-signed on recto lower left


Technique: Oil chalks on paper

Image Size: 58 x 70 cm / 22.83" x 27.56" inch


Frame: The painting is unframed

Condition: Very good condition.

Artist's Biography:

Albert Yohai, painter, born 1931, Alexandria, Egypt, died in Tel Aviv 2008.
Member of Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel-Aviv.

Education
1958-62 Avni Institute of Art, Tel Aviv, with Streichman, Stematsky, Krize, Argov, and Mokady.
1963-67 L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.

Awards and Prizes
1963 Silver Medal, Young Artists Exhibition, Rome, Italy

Curatorial works
1987 - Curator of the Israel Artists Exhibition to mark 60 for Bat Yam
1993 - Curator of "Choosing an Artist" The Tel Aviv Artists' House.

Albert Yochai (1931 - 2008) was an Israeli painter.
Lived and worked in Tel Aviv.

Born in Alexandria and a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Egypt.
In 1950 he immigrated to Israel and lived in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek until his enlistment in the IDF. 
From 1958-1962 he studied at the Avni Institute of Art in Tel Aviv. Among his teachers at the institute were the painters Yehezkel Streichman, Avigdor Stematsky, Yehiel Krize, Michael Argov, and Moshe Mokady. Most of them are the founders of "New Horizons" group in Israel. His artistic language was greatly influenced by them and he saw himself as continuing through them.
In 1963 he won a silver medal at an international exhibition of young artists, in Rome.
Following the scholarship he received, he went to Paris and studied painting and engraving at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1963 to 1965. Oil works were submitted for the exhibition.
Since 1963 he was a member of the Association of Painters and Sculptors in Tel Aviv and for several years served as the association's secretary.
In 1997 he was invited to stay in Paris at the Cite International des Arts where he stayed for long periods, creating and presenting a number of solo exhibitions there between1997-1999 and in 2000.
He became acquainted with the "Color in Nature" group in 1997. He arranged the group artistically, served as a teacher, facilitator and curator for the group and accompanied the group for several years.
His works were exhibited in 19 solo exhibitions between the years 2005-1975, including two exhibitions that were presented at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
He also participated in 19 group exhibitions in Israel and around the world.
Among them: an exhibition in Frankfurt in 1981, Zagreb in 1993, Mexico in 1995, an exhibition at the 28th International Festival at the Cannes-sur-Mer Museum in France in 1995 and an exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 2000.
He served as curator of the Israel Artists’ Exhibition, marking the 60th anniversary of Bat Yam, which was displayed at the Bat Yam Museum in 1987, and as the curator of "Artist Selection", which was displayed at the Artists' House in Tel Aviv in 1993.
In 1963 he won a silver medal and a diploma in an exhibition for young artists in Rome.
Died in Tel Aviv in 2008. 

Albert Yohaï was born in Alexandria, Egypt, studied painting and printmaking in Israel and also painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1963-1965, began painting at the age of eight, painted all his life, while making a career in a bank.
For Albert Yohaï any painting is therefore an adventure, a sort of journey in itself from nature ... Painting is not agitation, but meditation. It is a look, a transforming memorization ... a reconstruction ... meditating on nature and on itself.
Source: Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Solo exhibitions

1975 Paintings 1974-1975, New Gallery, Tel Aviv
          Czmarinski Gallery, Tel Aviv
1976 Meirov Gallery of art and culture, Holon
1979 Paintings, Dugith Gallery, Tel Aviv
1980 Paintings, The Artists' House, Jerusalem
1983 Drawings 1982, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
1984 The Artists' House, Jerusalem
1985 Yohai – Pastels, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
         Guest artist at the Carmiel Council House
1986 Pastel / Panda, Meirov Gallery of art and culture, Holon
1991 Meirov Gallery of art and culture, Holon
1993 ''Landscapes from the Beginning'', Artists Pavilion, Rishon Le Zion
         Albert Yohai: Pastel Works on Paper, Ophelia Gallery, The Studio - College of Art Studies, Ra’anana
         Pastel - Panda Works, Guest Artist Efrat Gallery, Tel Aviv.
1994 Beyond the Balcony, The Bar David Museum for Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Bara'am + Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
1997-2000  Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2005 The Bible House Museum, Tel Aviv
2007 Alternative Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 The Science of Being, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibitions

1962 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1978 The Artists' House, Jerusalem
1980 Dugith Gallery, Tel Aviv
1981 Israeli artists in Frankfurt
1985 Landscapes from Genesis, Yad LaBanim Museum, Petah Tikva
1987 Exhibition of Israeli Artists, Bat Yam Is 60, Bat Yam Art Museum
1988 The lyrical painting, Meirov Gallery of art and culture, Holon
1985 Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988 “The abstract and its ways of expression in art”, Meirov Gallery of art, Holon
1990 Panda - No Rules! Yad Labanim Museum, Petah Tikva
1991 The Artists' House, Tel Aviv
1992 Blue, the Artists' House, Tel Aviv
         Exhibition at Five, Bar David Museum, Kibbutz Bar’am  
1993 The Artists’ House, Rishon Lezion
         Wine and Color, painters' exhibition at the winery, Paris
         GradeC Museum, Zagreb
1995 Bar David Museum, Kibbutz Bar’am
         Maccabi Association, Mexico
         28th International Festival, Cannes-Sur-Mer Museum, France
         All in Size, The Painters' Association, Tel Aviv
1997 Bank Hapoalim in Art, Tel Aviv
         Shalom, Sport and Aliyah, Rishon Lezion Arts Center
2000 Autumn Salon, Paris, France.

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