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Eliezer Alcheh, one hundred years later
The celebration of painter’s birth centenary gives us an occasion to re-examine the facts, events and structures that guises his works over the years, and to outline both his artistic legacy ands the image of his artistic presence. The image of Eliezer Alcheh largely overlaps with the image of the twentieth century-both the painter and the century he lives in were dynamic, marked by seismic changes and great tragedies, full of ordeals but also of significant achievements.
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Alcheh, a real legend
Our generation associated Alcheh´s name above all with a powerful expressive Anvers Landscape, a subtle and evocative Venice, and a landscape with Vineyard (all three at the National Art Gallery). Still, his name and his art constantly came up in meeting and conversation with his friends from the Association of New Artists. Thanks to Stoyan Sotirov, Ivan Nenov, Boris Ivanov, Vera Nedkova and Vaska Emanouilova, his presence was very much alive and tangible. People spoke of his paintings with respect and admiration, along with the inevitable disillusionment of a period in which very few talented authors remained unaffected. I don’t know who was more thrilled and exited when Alcheh accepted our invitation and brought his unknown works from Argentina – those who loved and appreciated him as a person and an artist, or he himself, the exile who retuned home amidst old and a new friends after so many harrowing years! In some strange way, his works forms Argentina were connected to the expressive power of Anvers. And the quiet pictorial poetics of the Vineyards had evolved into powerful, vibrant and intense painting. An oeuvre that proved consistent in its differences, in the richness of subject, of plastic and emotional states.
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Missing paint
Blue Boats, 1960s, watercolour on cardboard, 30x40cm. View large image.
Missing paint
Still life with pears, 1960s, oil on fibreboard, 60x73cm. View large image.
Missing paint
The artistôs dughter, 1960s, watercolour on cardboard, 65x50.5cm. View large image.
Missing paint
Trees, 1958, watercolour on paper, 48x65cm. View large image.
