Abstract by The French artist Edgar Stoëbel (1909–2001)

Edgar Stoebel 1909 - 2001

Abstract

Mixed media on card signed bottom right

24 x 30cm

The French artist Edgar Stoëbel (1909–2001), real name René Teboul Yechoua, was born in Frenda, Algeria, on 21 December 1909, and died in Paris in December 2001. Stoëbel was the pseudonym he used as a painter. First attracted by music, he devoted himself to painting from 1940 In 1950, he frequented Montparnasse artists and became friends with the sculptress, Anton Prinner with Pierre Loeb and Picasso. In 1960, he invented his own writing which he called “Figura-synthesis”. “The Figura-synthesis is the image we have of an object and not the object in its form as it appears to us” In 1982: Silver Medal from the City of Paris for a Figura-synthesis Numerous works in the museums of France or Israel. From the mid-twentieth century. Stoebel has works on display at the Musée du Montparnasse in Paris and the Beit Uri and Rami Nechustan Museum in Israel.