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Harry Sefarbi

Harry Sefarbi (1917 - 2009) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Harry Sefarbi is known for Modernist nude and landscape painting, teaching.

The following article, written by Randy Kennedy, is from The New York Times, July 22, 2007

HARRY SEFARBI turned 90 last month, but he appears not to have paid much attention.
"Listen, before you faint, I want you to come over here and take a look at one more Modigliani," he said recently to a reporter whose art-appreciation muscles were beginning to weaken well into the third hour of a guided tour of the Barnes Foundation here, where Mr. Sefarbi, a painter, has taught for 54 years.

He often wears a patch over his left eye now, to remedy a double-vision problem. But you get the sense that Mr. Sefarbi has spent so many hours of his life looking at and thinking about the paintings that climb the walls of the Barnes — 181 Renoirs, 69 Cézannes, 59 Matisses — that he could describe each of them while blindfolded, like a Zen archer.

He leads the way to a Renoir landscape, whose luminescence he compares to peacock feathers. He describes how Cézanne's oft-painted   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12266 characters.]  Artist bio

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3 Book References for Harry Sefarbi
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
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