News
2016-03-18
Book “Litvak Art in Private Lithuanian Collections” will be presented at the National Gallery of Art
Presentation of the newly published book “Litvak Art in Private Lithuanian Collections” will be held at 5 p.m. on April 5, 2016, at the National Gallery of Art (Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius). The presentation will be attended by representatives of “Lewben Art Foundation”, “Lithuanian Expatriate Art Foundation”, “Jerusalem of the North”, law firm "Valiunas Ellex", compiler and author of the book DR Vilma Gradinskaitė and reviewer of the book DR Rasa Andriušytė Žukienė. The event will be moderated by Lolita Jablonskienė, head of National Gallery of Art.
The book “Litvak Art in Private Lithuanian Collections” allows readers a glimpse of the mysterious world of Jewish art. It presents 44 Litvak artists, and nearly 250 works of art. Even 130 paintings, watercolours, pastels and pieces of graphic art and sculpture come from the Lewben Art Foundation and the Lithuanian Expatriate Art Foundation. Nearly 90 art works are from law firm Valiunas Ellex collection.
Others comes from the private collections. Anna Avidan, Mikas Feigelovičius, Edmondas Kelmickas, Liuba and Gevork Kremer, Arvydas Maciulevičius, Giedra and Juozas Petraitis, Ramunė and Antanas Zabulis, and Jonas Žiburkus each contributed several pieces of Litvak art from their private collections. Most of the works reproduced in this book are presented to the public here for the first time.
Event Partner – National Gallery of Art.
You can read more about the book here.
