Beloosesky Gallery is interested in purchasing original sculpture, paintings or drawings by Chana Orloff.
Please call (917) 749-4557 or email us at info@beloosesky.com
Chana Orloff was born in Tsare-Constantinosvska, a small town in modern day Ukraine (formerly part of the Russian Empire). Her family moved to Palestine in 1905, however Orloff soon moved to Paris to upon her acceptance at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. Orloff went to Paris to study fashion but chose art instead, enrolling in sculpture classes at the Académie Russe in Montparnasse.
In 1916, she married Ary Justman, a Warsaw-born writer and poet. The couple had a son together, but their marriage was short lived as Ary died during the influenza epidemic of 1919. In Paris, Orloff became friendly with other young Jewish artists, among them Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, Pascin, Chaim Soutine, and Ossip Zadkine.
By the 1920s Orloff was a leading portraitist of Parisian high society. She was named Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur after receiving French citizenship in 1926. She remained in Paris until 1942, but made several trips to Palestine during this time. When the Nazis invaded Paris, Orloff fled to Switzerland with her son and the Jewish painter Georges Kars. She would not return to her home in Paris until 1945, whereupon she discovered a ransacked home.
After the establishment of the State of Israel, Orloff spent an increasing amount of time in the country. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art held an exhibition of thirty-seven of her sculptures in 1949.
She remained in Israel for about a year in order to complete a sculpture of David Ben-Gurion. In addition to monuments, Orloff sculpted portraits of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and future Prime Minister Levi Eshkol; the architects Pierre Chareau, and Auguste Perret; painters Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and Per Krohg; and the poets Hayyim Nahman Bialik, and Pierre Mac Orlan.
Orloff died in Israel in 1968 on a trip to see a retrospective exhibition of her artwork on the occasion of her eightieth birthday.
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FRANCE
Arras Musée d'Arras
Boulogne-billancourt Musée des années 30
Cambrai Musée municipal
Giverny Musée Américain
Grenoble Musée de Grenoble
Mont de Marsan Musée Despiau-Wlerick
Musée National d'Art Moderne (Pompidou), Paris
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Rodez Musée de Rodez
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Hertzélia - Musée d'Hertzélia
Jérusalem - Musée Israël
Jérusalem - Beit Horovitz
Jérusalem - Beit Ticho
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Tel Aviv - Beit Rubin
Tel Aviv - Beit Bialik
Tel Aviv - Beit Ayala Zacks, Open University
Hôpital Tel Hashomer
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