Attributed to Theo Tobiasse, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 27"H X 34"W framed, mint condition Biography: Théo Tobiasse born Tobias Eidesas was a French painter, engraver, illustrator, and sculptor. His first canvases were exhibited at the Salon des Peintres du Sud-Est in 1960. He won the 1961 “prize for young Mediterranean painting” and Armand Drouant offered him a first contract and exhibited it at the Galerie du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris in 1962.Théo Tobiasse also won the Dorothy-Gould Prize in 1961. He then decided to devote himself solely to the visual arts. Many exhibitions are dedicated to him around the world, in Paris at the Drouant gallery, in Geneva, Montreal or Tokyo, then London, Zurich, Lauzanne, Los Angeles, Kyiv, and then a first solo exhibition in New York (1968). Self-taught, he studied the technique of the great masters in museums during his travels. The reliefs, glazes and colors of The Jewish Bride by Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, in particular, opens up new technical possibilities he explores in his paintings back to his workshop.