Theo Tobiasse was born in Palestine in 1927 and brought to Paris as a child.
He created his earliest drawings before World War II, and spent the crucial years of his youth hiding from the Nazis in a Paris apartment.
After the war he became a successful commercial designer until 1961 when he decided to devote his full attention to painting.
Theo Tobiasse’s style of painting is highly sophisticated. Tobiasse’s technique is a painterly blend of surrealism, expressionism, and modern primitivism.
His themes are literary, often biblical, and at times erotic.
Tobiasse paintings seem to transcend history – fusing dreams, mythologies, biblical stories and his own past – into rich metaphors for the world of the present.
Today Tobiasse devides his time between New york and France.
