My Memories of Yehuda Vardi

Yehuda Vardi (1926 -1990)

Contents

Yehuda Vardi’s life

Yehuda Vardi’s art

My Memories of Yehuda Vardi

Women’s portraits paintings

Children’s portraits paintings

Portraying Wallenberg

Epilog

The Israeli painter Yehuda Vardi was born in Iraq. He immigrated to Israel at the age of seven with his family, to settle first in a Kibbutz and later in Tel Aviv, where he studied art at University.

Yehuda Vardi had gained name and recognition for his soft colorful portraits of beautiful women and childs.

He was a socially conscious artist, and upon reading about Wallenberg, he came to see the Swedish diplomat as his hero.