“Litvak Art in Private Lithuanian Collections” – the first comprehensive overview of Litvak art

The Lewben Art Foundation together with the Lithuanian Expatriate Art Foundation, Jerusalem of the North and their partner the law firm Valiunas Ellex has just published a new art album “Litvak Art in Private Lithuanian Collections” – the first comprehensive overview of Litvak 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.

Compiler: Vilma Gradinskaitė
Design: Sigutė Chlebinskaitė
Issued: 2015
Number of pages: 232

Sponsors:
„Lewben Group”
„Enercom Capital“
„Strategy Labs“
Lithuanian Council for Culture
Good Will Foundation
„Sicor Biotech / Teva“
„Kenova Group“
„Spektramed“
Vilius Kavaliauskas and Rita Navalinskaitė
Jonas and Živilė Garbaravičius
Anna Avidan and Evgeni Hiterer
Anna and Aleksandr Černov
Ronen Waisser Landau
Jacobo Sandler