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Presents:

Harry Guttman

Sunlit Village
$375.00
2001
Unframed dimensions: 16" X 18 1/2"
Seriolithograph in color wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered
From the regular numbered edition of 750 (75 European artist's proofs,
75 artist's proofs, 75 hors commerce proofs, 90 printer's proofs,
3 bon tirer impressions, and 75 proofs numbered in Roman numerals also exist)

Artist Bio

Harry Guttman was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1933.
He attended Jewish schools throughout his youth and graduated from high school in 1948.
He continued his education at Art Licuem in Bucharest and graduated in 1954.
Guttman graduated with distinction from the Romanian Academy of Fine Art in 1960,
having received tutoring under some of Romanian’s premier artists,
such as Victor Brauner, Jacques Herold, Mercel Uanco, Israti and Dumitresco.
Guttman became a member of the Romanian Association of Painters at the age of twenty-eight.
Many of his paintings and lithographs were purchased and displayed at the official
exhibitions by the Romanian Government. During this time, Guttman was working as an illustrator,
doing artwork for book jackets and movie posters. His first one-man show was exhibited
at Magheru Gallery in Bucharest in 1963. He traveled to Moscow and Leningrad in 1964
for further studies. In 1966, he won third prize at the International Movie Posters Competition
In Moscow for his poster of the German film “Goya”. During the next several years,
Guttman participated in group exhibitions throughout Europe.
He then traveled to Budapest and Prague for a year of studies in 1968, following that up with
a trip to Poland in 1969 for additional studies. With the loosening of the “iron curtain”
in Europe, Guttman was able to immigrate to Israel in 1974. Since that time he has been extremely
active putting on one-man shows throughout Europe, Israel and North America. Guttman’s work has been
described by critics as having a “celestial cleanness and finesse, reminding one of classical icons.”
The three most important subjects of his artwork being women, representing life and tenderness,
and dancers and buildings, both of which are usually floating, which serve to remind the viewer
of the security of life and love.

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