Joseph Zaritsky

Eliov Family, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Zaritsky Retrospective, 1984, p. 134, no. 270, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (illustrated also in color on p. 132)
Tel Aviv, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv at Eighty, 1989
Tel Aviv, Gordon Gallery, Zaritsky: Here, the Light is Dark, 2000

Mordechai Omer, Jossef Zaritsky, Rishon LeZion, 1987, p. 198, no. 193, illustrated

Original canvas. Slight surface dirt, otherwise in very good condition. One spot of paint loss (blue paint) in the center of the work. No retouching is apparent when viewed under ultra violet light.
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In this series of paintings from Tel Aviv windows, Zaritsky returned once again to the theme of the window which had interested him since the 1920s. Zaritsky refers to the classic format of the window, applied before him by artists such as Cézanne, Matisse, Braque and Picasso. The architectural form of the window is a context in which the artist could emphasize, in his personal pictorial language, the struggle between interior and exterior, light and dark, heat and cold and order and chaos. Through this window, Zaritsky gives his personal interpretation of the city of Tel Aviv infusing the abstract expressionist brushstrokes characteristic of his style of the late 1960s. The world is shown as an eruption of emotions, as a struggle between form and spontaneity, between cold blues and warm red pigments and between logic and sensation. This work is a beautiful example of a mature work from Israel's leading abstract artists.