Jacques Zucker - December 7 to 28, 2024

Lilac Gallery New York is pleased to present “Passages du Monde” an exhibition of works by Jacques Zucker. A wonderful collection of a body of work that will include post-impressionistic romantic oil paintings, portraits, still-lives, town and landscapes, done on his many travels around the world and also 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.