Theo Tobiasse "New York" Mixed-Media, signed Théo Tobiasse is born is Israel in 1927 of Lithuanian parents. Insurmountable financial difficulties force the family to Kovno, then to Paris, where his father, a typographer, hopes to find work. Théo Tobiasse is six years old; this exhausting, interminable voyage, this displacement, will impregnate the painter's entire oeuvre with the scent of exile. His dissimilarity, his accent, the look of "otherness", will force Tobiasse to rely on no one but himself. War time?Paris is under the Nazi's heel. Tobiasse briefly attends the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, before discriminatory laws require him to go into hiding; the Tobiasse family will remain confined two long years in their tiny apartment.His themes, initially profane, quickly evolve towards reminiscences of his childhood, some elements of which become true symbols for the artist. These "pictorial words", specific to the artist, will mix with biblical themes, the recurring theme of exile, erotic fantasies. Tobiasse's work speaks of the past, undoubtedly to better anticipate the future. His canvases, like his important works on paper (engravings, lithographs, drawings) are woven of crowds of people, women, children, sun, stars, but also of candelabras that are lights of hope.