Jacob Baal-Teshuva

Jacob Baal-Teshuva (1929–2022) was an Israeli-American author, journalist, art critic, and art collector.

His writings, exhibitions, and art collections included artists such as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Andy Warhol. He was considered an internationally recognized expert on Marc Chagall.

Background Baal-Teshuva was born in Jerusalem in 1929. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York University. He was married to artist Aviva Baal-Teshuva , born Heilvig Hilde Schmidt in Berlin in 1940, until her death in 2016. Over the next 50 years, they collected 20th-century artworks, most of which were sold in a Sotheby's online auction titled "An Artistic Home."

Baal-Teshuva resided and worked in New York and Paris. He died in Florida on March 3, 2022.

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