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JACQUES ZUCKER REDISCOVERED

Jacques Zucker

December 2, 2015 - February 3, 2016

- PRESS RELEASE -

“Jacques Zucker Rediscovered” will spotlight acclaimed  American artist Jacques Zucker's signature post-impressionistic romantic oil paintings, including portraits, still-lives, town and landscapes, done on his many travels around the world.  This body of work will as well include a rare self portrait painting completed in the late 1920's when Jacques Zucker met Chaim Soutine and Modigliani in France.

Zucker's post-impressionistic paintings can best be described as both gentle and vehement. There is a quiet order in the composed works, yet Zucker's brush strokes suggest a more abrupt passion. This passion is seen in the deep colours executed with much texture and prominence. The sumptuous tonalities of purples, mauves, oranges and joyful yellows create a dramatic aesthetic look; vibrating and exploding in many unsuspecting ways as they eventually tone down gradually into an understatement of grays, called by Degas "dead tones."  Zucker was a very intense painter, he worked rapidly, drawing with brush and color directly on to the canvas. The works on display are from various time periods of Zucker's life, leaving us with impressions from different areas of his life work. 

Jacques Zucker was driven by his ultimate passion, his love for nature, painting works which were never staged and always with in the moment of inspiration. His artwork creates a dramatic, sentimental, and delicate voice with great attention to his own style. It was in the 1920’s when he painted along side Soutine, Pascin, Zadkine, Chagall, Kremegne, Volovick, and Indenbaum, all of them still unknown and poor at the time sharing similar interests of their hopes and their beliefs. Zucker emerged from this circle to create his own style and path; it has been said that his paintings convey and play upon warmth and affection, as opposed to vulgarity and sadness as so many of these artists did at the time. 

The result of his lifetime work is astonishing; his unique styles of impressionistic subjects are rich with life, color and enthusiasm. His ultimate passion to paint with his heart and not for the aim of “success” is truly felt in every single painting. Jacques Zucker has left us with an incredible body of work now residing in Museums and collections around the world. 

JACQUES ZUCKER REDISCOVERED

Jacques Zucker

December 2, 2015 - February 3, 2016

- PRESS RELEASE -

“Jacques Zucker Rediscovered” will spotlight acclaimed  American artist Jacques Zucker's signature post-impressionistic romantic oil paintings, including portraits, still-lives, town and landscapes, done on his many travels around the world.  This body of work will as well include a rare self portrait painting completed in the late 1920's when Jacques Zucker met Chaim Soutine and Modigliani in France.

Zucker's post-impressionistic paintings can best be described as both gentle and vehement. There is a quiet order in the composed works, yet Zucker's brush strokes suggest a more abrupt passion. This passion is seen in the deep colours executed with much texture and prominence. The sumptuous tonalities of purples, mauves, oranges and joyful yellows create a dramatic aesthetic look; vibrating and exploding in many unsuspecting ways as they eventually tone down gradually into an understatement of grays, called by Degas "dead tones."  Zucker was a very intense painter, he worked rapidly, drawing with brush and color directly on to the canvas. The works on display are from various time periods of Zucker's life, leaving us with impressions from different areas of his life work. 

Jacques Zucker was driven by his ultimate passion, his love for nature, painting works which were never staged and always with in the moment of inspiration. His artwork creates a dramatic, sentimental, and delicate voice with great attention to his own style. It was in the 1920’s when he painted along side Soutine, Pascin, Zadkine, Chagall, Kremegne, Volovick, and Indenbaum, all of them still unknown and poor at the time sharing similar interests of their hopes and their beliefs. Zucker emerged from this circle to create his own style and path; it has been said that his paintings convey and play upon warmth and affection, as opposed to vulgarity and sadness as so many of these artists did at the time. 

The result of his lifetime work is astonishing; his unique styles of impressionistic subjects are rich with life, color and enthusiasm. His ultimate passion to paint with his heart and not for the aim of “success” is truly felt in every single painting. Jacques Zucker has left us with an incredible body of work now residing in Museums and collections around the world. 

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  EXHIBITED WORKS

EXHIBITED WORKS

Featured
Bethesda Fountain in New York City's Central Park, 1952
Snow in Washington Square Park, 20th Century
The Flower Vendor, 20th Century
European City Scene, ca. 1970
Sunday Gathering in a Village, Circa 1960
Interior Scene of Woman in Paris, ca. 1950
Interior Scene of Woman Resting, ca. 1940
Portrait of Pensive Man, ca. 1940
Farmer with His Horses, ca. 1950
Biking Though Taxco, ca. 1960
Farmer with His Wheelbarrow, ca. 1950
The Fishermen, ca. 1950
Church Scene in Mexico, ca. 1960
Village in Mexico, ca. 1950
Interior Scene of Spanish Dancer, ca. 1950
Woman in Red, ca. 1940
Portrait of Pensive Woman, ca. 1960
Thinking of Him, ca. 1970
Woman with Cigarette, ca. 1940
Young Boy Hitchhiking, Circa 1960
Flower Pot, ca. 1970
European Church Scene, ca. 1960
Down the Mountain, ca. 1960
Young Boy on Donkey, ca. 1960
Floral Arrangement on Table, ca. 1980
Circus Performers, ca. 1950
Young Girl Thinking, ca. 1940
Floral Arrangement, ca. 1980
Shoe Shiner, ca. 1940
Portrait of a Young Boy, 20th Century
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