Shaoul Smira, 1980's Large Modernist Israeli Film Noir Figures Lithograph Neo-Expressionism

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Shaoul Smira (Israeli, b. 1939)
City Light Publisher, San Francisco. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) signed "SMIRA" in pencil l.r. and numbered "86/100" … Read more Shaoul Smira (Israeli, b. 1939)
City Light Publisher, San Francisco. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) signed "SMIRA" in pencil l.r. and numbered "86/100" in pencil l.l., Color lithograph on Arches paper with watermarks, deckled edges.

Shaoul Smira is an American artist.
Shaoul smira moved to Israel from Iraq as a child in 1951, found his métier in art and received his training in Tel Aviv, Israel at the Avni Art Institute. Lauded as the Marc Chagall of israel. In 1965 he moved to Paris and continued his studies in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. These endeavors progressed in 1971 when Smira attended the Antwerp Academy to study etching and in 1976 when he attended workshops in Belgium to study the process of cast paper work. Smira also attended workshops in 1985 at the Atelier Mourlot for series of lithos. His work is influenced by the Italian Transavanguardia movement, artists such as Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, Mimmo Paladino, and other Neo-expressionism artists such as Kitaj, Elvira Bach, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub and David Salle. Shaoul Smira has an impressive biography and has been lauded and written about by many prominent art critics and museum directors, including Gerard Goodrow from the Ludwig Museum in Koln, Jan Fonce from the Mucka Museum in Belgium, Yigal Zalmona The Chief Curator of the Israel Museum, Amnon Barzel, Director of the Prato Museum, Italy, as well as art critics Franz Bonders from Palle De Beaux-Arts, Belgium and Donald Kuspit, a Professor of Art and Philosophy from New York. Smira has been living and working in New York since 1978.


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Gallery el Museo, Bogotá, Colombia
Gallery Cecelia, Gonzales, Lima, Peru
National Museum, Lima, Peru
America House, Köln, Germany
El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia
Art International, Miami, USA
The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
I.C.C., Hasselt, Belgium
International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium: Menashe Kadishman, Shaoul Smira and Uri Lifshits Exhibition
Keith Green Gallery, New York, USA
Lavigne Bastille Gallery, Paris, France
Bank Pariba Art Gallery, Antwerp Belgium
Olympia Hall, Art International, London, UK
Gallery Poisedon, Knokke, Belgium
Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokkle, Belgium
Campo Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Allen Rich Gallery, New York, USA
Tamara Pfeiffer Gallery, Brussels
Gallery 44, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie de Eik, Antwerp Belgium
Galerie International, Tel Aviv, Israel
Gallery 40, Amsterdam, Holland
Gallery 119, Tel Aviv, Israel
Galerie de la Madeleine, Brussels, Belgium
Chemerinsky Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Blue Palet, Paris, France
Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
International Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
City Hall of Tel Aviv, Israel

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Skirball Museum, L.A., USA
Frederic Weisman Foundation, L.A., USA
American House, Koln, Germany
American House, Brussels, Belgium
National Museum, Lima, Peru
American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
Syracuse University, New York, USA
Paribas Bank, Brussels, Belgium
National Television, Lima, Peru
City of Brussels, Belgium
Broffman Center, Montreal, Canada
JP Morgan Bank, Brussels, Belgium
JP Morgan, Frankfurt, Germany
Paribas Bank, Antwerp, Belgium
American Library, Brussels, Belgium
Rockefeller Art Center, New York, USA
Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada
Alliance Francaise, Paris, France
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Skopje, Yugoslavia
Legano Museum of Modern Art, Italy
Museum voor Schone, Kunsten, Oostende, Belgium
Verzameling van het Ministerie van Belgium
Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Brussels, Belgium
ICC, Antwerp, Belgium
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