Hi all - Has anyone heard of the artist Yoseftal Varodi? I found an auction in NJ on LiveAuctioneers coming up this weekend and went to the preview. It has quite a bit of art and antiques and a lot of art by the above noted artist. Much of it is not labeled correctly I dont believe. I like the pieces but by Yoseftal but not sure of the value. I think they are originals but I cant be sure. I tried to upload photos of what they had but the file is too large. Any help would be appreciated!
These I presume: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/search/?keyword=Yoseftal&sort=-relevance&status=online
Is this the artist you think they are being attributed to? https://varodi-art.com/Artist_and_his_Studio.html
Yes it is - Those posts are all from the same owner , same collection - A collector in NJ - He traveled to Israel frequently. The Facebook site does not infer that there are any prints made and his works are all owned by private collections. That website is all I can find on him.
There are many more pieces in this auction that are not labeled or attributed correctly as well it seems.
"not labeled or attributed correctly as well it seems" If you haven't seen his work before, how do you know that? BTW - I saw several mentions of him online, a couple of which said that in 40 years he had produced 10,000 paintings. That's 250 a year. I am skeptical of the quality of those and that they were actually painted. Some of the details on works I found appeared to have printed details.
I used what they called him in the LA listing above - Yoseftal. In some of the mentions they split the name into Yosef Tal. But Google found them all easily.
On his site I see a lot of sketches, watercolours and mixed media work that is clearly made with considerable flair and speed. I can imagine an accomplished artist like him 'churning out' 250 of those a year. We had several artists like that in the regular stock of our gallery. Actually, the artist I ran the gallery with could produce several paintings a day, if he just used watercolour and pencil. Art fair work, he called it, not gallery work.
Yes, a lot of it is in a style that has been popular worldwide for quite some time, and understandably so.
