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David Bekker 2001 Large Color Ex-Libris ‘Feline Act’

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Large erotic ex-libris 2001 by David Bekker : ‘Feline Act’

Techniques used :

C4 Drypoint

C7 Mezzotint

Sheet size : 30,8 x 23,8 cm

Image : 24,5 x 17,5 cm

Handsigned – dated – dedicated (Happy New Year 2002)

Handnumbered : EA II/X

Mint condition

Info on David Bekker :

David Yulyevich Bekker (April 15, 1940 in Odessa – March 4, 2022) was a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist.

Bekker’s father Julius, whom he never met, came from a family of German colonists and worked as a professor at an industrial institute, where he also met his mother, then a student at the institute and later a firm party member of the CPSU. His father was executed in 1939. David took over the family name Bekker from his mother. From 1955 to 1960 he attended the Art School “M.Grekov” Odessa and from 1960 to 1966 the Arts and Crafts Institute in Kharkov. In 1966 he started his first creative period; mainly paintings, drawings, engravings and lithographs. Two years later he created the first bookplate based on linoleum engraving. From 1970 to 1980 he worked mostly with the “drypoint engraving” technique.

In 1970 he was accepted into the Artists’ Association of the USSR. In 1991 he became a member of the Artists’ Association of Ukraine. Since 1994, he increasingly devoted himself to the creation of bookplates, mostly for private clients. Today he is active as an artist worldwide in the field of engravings and lithographs.

His works can be found in the Pushkin Museum Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ex Libis Center /St. Niklaas Belgium and The Book Museum / s’Gravenhaag Netherlands, among others.

Awards :

1986 second and third place / art exhibition in Poland

1987 Albrecht Dürer Prize / Nuremberg in Germany

1996 “Reynaert de Vos” First prize / St. Niklaas in Belgium

1997 International Exlibris Competition “Fairy Tales ” / in Belgium

1999 third place (Mouse Ketti Competition) / in Luxembourg

1999 second place at the VIII Biennale / in Poland

2001 Grand Prize of Japan for the “Best Exlibris 2000”.