David Azuz, Israeli French David Azuz Naive Oil Painting Paris Bar Scene Colorful Fauvist, 1975

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David Azuz (1942-) Bar scene with five people, drinking and talking. Hand signed lower left Oil on canvas Dimensions: (Frame) … Read more David Azuz (1942-) Bar scene with five people, drinking and talking. Hand signed lower left Oil on canvas Dimensions: (Frame) H 20" x W 23" (Canvas) H 18.5" x W 22" Tel Aviv, 1942 – Israel-born, France-based artist, David Azuz is figurative painter, with a rich, colorful style. His works depict the Cafe scene, coffee, jazz and wine bar in Paris. His later work had a bit more of a Naif, folk art feel, this is an earlier Expressionist piece. He regularly painted Le Select, the famous Montparnasse café that for nearly nine decades has been so vital to Paris and its intellectual denizens: from Ernest Hemingway, Beauvoir, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, James Baldwin, and George Plimpton to the writers and artists who continue to work quietly there in the back room or heatedly debate every topic imaginable into the night. it was renowned as an intellectual gathering place. His expressionism paintings are masterfully drawn and full of curiosity for the simple details of life. Azuz's subjects, in bistros and markets, whether in Rome, Paris or Tel Aviv, often express the solitude of the individual. These individuals are symbolic of the universal citizen and are deeply moving in their pathos and search for themselves. He usually works late at night in Paris cafes in search of those characteristic attitudes of the bartenders and patrons, which tend to blossom at this time of the evening, for instance, young couples in love, hiding their romance in the corner or old ladies getting a little warmth from the anisette they sip slowly to make time go a long way. In today's world, it is comforting to meet an artist who has not indulged in fashion by abstracting the patterns of life, but. on the contrary, has used his knowledge of classical drawing and, above all, his passionate temperament to communicate to us the simple gestures of life which most have forgotten to do. He showed at Yad Lebanim Museum, Petach Tikva with Naftali Bezem, Nachum Gutman, Moshe Gat, Shraga Weil, Lea Nikel, Ruth Schloss, Yosl Bergner, Anna Ticho, and Menashe Kadishman. SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1959: Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Nora Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel - Tiroche Gallery, Old City, Jaffa, Israel - Rina Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 1963: Gallery Wirth, Berlin, Germany · 1966: Maison de Ia Culture, Paris, France 1967: Galerie Abel Rosenberg, Paris, France 1971: Gallery Bernstein, Elmshorn, Germany 1972: Archer Gallery, London, England 1973: Engel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 1974: Galerie Abel Rosenberg, Paris, France - Gallery Markup, Mexico · 1975: Limited Edition Gallery, Los Angeles, California · 1976: Galerie L'Arlequin, Paris · 1978: Cardo Matignon, Paris Select Group Exhibitions: 1958: "Art of Tomorrow", Museum of Modern Arts, Haifa, Israel 1959: -Exhibition Modern Art in Israel "Artists House" of Jerusalem Haifa, Tel Aviv, Israel - "Man and Humanity in Israel" Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel 1960: "Exhibition Modern Art in Israel" Artists House of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, (Israel Painters and Sculptors Association) 1961: - Gallery Jean Tiroche, Jaffa, Israel Gallery Wiener, New York, Gallery Wirth, Berlin, Germany Galerie Du Fleuve, Paris, France Gallery Wirth, Berlin, Germany Festival "66", Combined Synagogue of Great Neck, N.Y Galerie Carpenter, Paris, France 1967 : Saint-Peres, Paris, France 1970: Exposition Hotel Royal Monceau, Paris, France 1971: Galerie Abel Rosenberg,Paris, France 1973: Ohanna Gallery, London. See less