Portrait. The Gaon Rabbi Chaim HaLevi Soloveitchik of Brisk. Timur Tsaku b. 1972

Portrait. The Gaon Rabbi Chaim HaLevi Soloveitchik of Brisk. Timur Tsaku b. 1972

Oil on wood painting. Black and white, 51x72 cm. Including wooden frame, 78x101 cm. Signed by the artist.

Hyperrealistic, photo-like, and stimulating work of art created using a unique technique by the artist Timur Tsaku.

This painting is a copy of the portrait of the gaon Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk when he was photographed with Jewish soldiers in WWI.

Background: Timur Tsaku was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1972. After graduating from art school in 1987, he continued his education in the P.P. Ben’kov College majoring in theater decoration and taught painting and sketching in the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater. In 1991, Tsaku left for Israel, where he began working on Chayot HaKodesh (“The G-d’s Angels”) paintings, that were later combined into one of his most significant art series. This series made Tsaku famous in the art world, and especially among the American artists of the realism genre. He returned to Israel in 2001 to create biblically-inspired Israeli art.

In 2006 Tsaku started working on portraits of the Jewish holy men (Tsadikim). The virtuoso skill of his technique has helped to establish Tsaku as a true master of a portrait genre.

His portraits are characterized by their hyper-realistic style, and reflect a unique combination of artistic talent, black-and-white components and astounding technique of precision in the small details. The characters in his paintings take up the majority of the area of the pictures, with an abstract view in the background. Pictures of people and animals that he paints, using the "triple zero" paint brush and a magnifying glass, look almost like photographs. His successful virtuoso technique reflects the uniqueness, mood and character of the individual in a way that evokes pause. His works are so unique that the artist is immediately identifiable. His paintings arouse astonishment, combining hyper-realism and surrealism.

Tsaku was commissioned to paint a portrait of Boris Yeltsin in 2011 and he continues painting the official portraits of many of the Russian statesmen and diplomats.

His creations are displayed in the most prestigious art galleries in the United States, select collections in Israel, private collections of Russian president V.V. Putin, D.A. Medvedev, T.B. Yumashev, N.I. Yeltsin, M.S. Shaimiev, I.B. Primakov, E.M. Primakov, Jr, R.A. Kadyrov, R.G. Abdulatipov, V.A. Shamanov and many other Russian dignitaries.

Condition: Very fine.