The Writer (Ecrivain), 1934 Gift of Mrs. Peter Takal, Geneva, Switzerland, 1996.
Peter Takal
Peter Takal (1905-1995) was born in Romania, educated in Berlin in the 1920s, lived and worked in Paris in the 1930s and became a U.S. citizen in 1944. He is appreciated internationally as a prolific print maker and a master of pen-and-ink drawings-his chosen medium. Subjects range from Parisian street scenes to linear fantasies of plant life and landscapes with surrealist overtones that evolved after he acquired a farm in eastern Pennsylvania in 1945.
Takal's career, which spanned seven decades, includes more than 100 one-man exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe, the latest of which, a retrospective, took place at the Arkansas Arts Center in June 2000 with the catalogue Peter Takal on Paper by Townsend Wolfe.
Takal's work is currently represented in more than 100 public collections throughout the world. For more information on his career and a complete bibliography, see Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Peter Takal (Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1986), Takal: Dessins, 1930-1990 (Galerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland, 1990) or Peter Takal: Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik 1930-1991 (Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1993).
With approximately 1,500 drawings as well as prints, paintings, books, sketchbooks and archival material donated by the artist's family, the Arkansas Arts Center has become the major repository for Takal's remaining work.
  
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