Itzchak Tarkay

Itzchak Tarkay of Israel – an artist of daring colour, flowering lines and the female form – female faces lacking detail – all recognizable thumbprints.  

Itzchak Tarkay depicts the teeming street life of Tel Aviv, the market places of Jaffa, the sidewalk café’s of Paris. Tarkey’s subjects are sorrowful, watchful and apprehensive – they gossip, pass a secret, and share a quiet moment. Tarkay’s art is concerned with joy, sorrow, contentment and the means to make them tangible.

Itzchak Tarkay has been compared to Matisse, Gauguin, Degas, Lautrec and early Picasso.

Itzchak Tarkay has lived through dangerous times from a childhood spent at Mauthausen concentration camp to the bombings of Tel Aviv. This past has imbued his art with a freedom and spirit that is powerful. Itzchak Tarkay exhibits a love of humanity and a lust for life in his work.

This slideshow with lecture will highlight selected, fascinating works of the artist Itzchak Tarkay