Yehoshua Kovarsky Painting Papillon Gallery has recently acquired the rights to represent the estate of Yehoshua Kovarsky (1907–1967), a Lithuanian-born painter who studied in Paris in the 1930s. With the advent of World War II, Kovarsky fled to Palestine, having lost the bulk of his work in the German raids, and eventually began rebuilding his oeuvre in Israel and in the United States, where he discovered abstract expressionism and cubist forms. His work is in collections in the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Jewish Museum in New York, among others. This piece, Rhapsody in Blue, a signed oil on canvas from the 1950s, clearly represents the stride the artist hit toward the end of his life. “The image is hiding somewhere inside,” he once said of creating art. “You try to fix it and you get closer to what is hiding inside of you.” $12,500 from Papillon Gallery Photo 11 of 14 in Finds From the LA Modernism Show by Dwell

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Yehoshua Kovarsky Painting

Papillon Gallery has recently acquired the rights to represent the estate of Yehoshua Kovarsky (1907–1967), a Lithuanian-born painter who studied in Paris in the 1930s. With the advent of World War II, Kovarsky fled to Palestine, having lost the bulk of his work in the German raids, and eventually began rebuilding his oeuvre in Israel and in the United States, where he discovered abstract expressionism and cubist forms. His work is in collections in the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Jewish Museum in New York, among others. This piece, Rhapsody in Blue, a signed oil on canvas from the 1950s, clearly represents the stride the artist hit toward the end of his life. “The image is hiding somewhere inside,” he once said of creating art. “You try to fix it and you get closer to what is hiding inside of you.” $12,500 from

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