Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost, aka Abstract Composition) , 1965
41 x 61 cm (h x w)
Colour Lithograph

© Estate of Marcel Janco

In the 1940s Janco abandoned abstraction for an Expressionist style in which he depicted his new surroundings using a brighter palette more reflective of the local light and also moving towards a more abstract style. He joined forces with other artists including Yosef Zaritsky and Moshe Castel, in founding the Ofakim Hadashim (New Horizons) group, which combined elements of abstract European art with Eastern motifs and a style similar to that in contemporaneous Europe. In 1953 Janco established an artists’ colony at Ein Hod, winning the Dizengoff Prize and Israel Prize. Janco’s lithograph belongs to this later period of his work in Israel when he returned to abstraction in a more lyrical vein than that of his earlier work.

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