Dora Holzhandler - Original Paintings 2013

Dora

Holzhandler original paintings

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ÂŁ00 GOLDMARK 2013

12 Dora Holzhandler Christmas cards

free with every painting.

Holzhandler’s images of childhood bliss

have made her one of the country’s most popular artists.

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Mother and Daughter in Spring

gouache, 1994 37.5 x 28 cm

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The Guardian

Dora Holzhandler Described by art critic Eric Newton as a temperamental primitive, Dora Holzhandler is one of the century’s most original artists.

Born in Paris in 1928 to Polish Jewish refugee parents, Holzhandler has lived mostly in London since the age of six. She is married to George Swinford and they have three daughters.

Holzhandler discovered Buddhism in the early 1950s, but is also a student of the Jewish Kabbalah.

These twin mystical interests have served to confirm her open and celebratory view of existence, even where events bring tragedy and sadness.

Holzhandler’s richly decorative paintings of everyday life, often specifically Jewish, are reminiscent of

Polish folk art, Indian and Persian miniatures and Roman mosaics. She chooses subjects that are strikingly diverse: a family at the aquarium; a Rabbi teaching; Guignol in Paris, girls bathing.

Inspired by Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist-Catholic novels, Aldous Huxley’s study of visionary perception and LSD-transfigured ways of seeing, and essays on the mystical path by a Catholic monk, Dora Holzhandler draws no distinction between the sacred and the mundane.

All of Dora Holzhandler’s paintings possess

an ineffable tenderness, they make us recall

our childhoods, our myths, our roots. They

are little expanses of sweetness and peace.

Edna O’Brien

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Young Girl with Apple Tree

gouache, 1999 30 x 28.5 cm

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3.

Girl Bathing gouache, 1990 37.5 x 27.5 cm

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Bar Mitzvah Boy gouache, 1990 27.5 x 28.5 cm

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Rabbi Teaching

gouache, 2000 33 x 27 cm

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Girl in Autumn gouache, 1986 30.5 x 30.5 cm

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Lovers

gouache, 1990 30 x 37.5 cm

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Crucifixion of Jesus gouache, 1994 37.5 x 25.5 cm

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9.

Rabbi

gouache, 2001 37.5 x 29.5 cm

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Guignol de Paris gouache, 1995 39.5 x 39 cm

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Dora Holzhandler’s

beautiful paintings...

are at once movingly

intimate and universal

in feeling.

Philip Vann

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Jewish Lady Praying gouache, 1986 29.5 x 30.5 cm

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Married Couple with Shekhinah gouache, 1990 40.5 x 29.5 cm

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13.

Girls in a Lake gouache, 1998 31 x 31 cm

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Mother and Baby in Snow gouache, 1991 27.5 x 27 cm

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Family at Aquarium gouache, 1994 40.5 x 28.5 cm

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Synagogue, Glasgow gouache, 1991 36 x 26 cm

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For Dora Holzhandler

life often seems to be

a dance. Or a feast.

Or the two together.

Certainly a happy

place, full of colour

and movement.

John Russell Taylor,

The Times

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Friday Night Meal gouache, 1990 36 x 30 cm

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Lady in a Shower of Rain gouache, 1986 46 x 41.5 cm

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Clown

gouache, 2000 39.5 x 32 cm

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The Peaceful Kingdom

gouache, 1995 34.5 x 33.5 cm

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21.

Rabbi Studying Torah

pastel, 2000 37.5 x 27 cm

£850

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Petit Déjeuner, Paris

gouache, 2000 50.5 x 40.5 cm

£1500

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The Sunday Times

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