PERSONALITY PORTRAITS
The Rebbe - Elie Wiesel - Estee Lauder - Dr.Benny
and many more coming soon...
Although Edel has professionally photographed such celebrities as H.M.the Queen, Rajiv Ghandi, Mr.Brian Mulroney ,the Bronfmans ,Elie Wiesel and Mr.and Mrs.Jimmy Pattison,Edel was always hesitant to paint traditional portraits for fear of not capturing an exact likeness especially as anyone today can take a cell phone portrait ...HOWEVER ...
About 25 years ago Mr.Morris Wosk obm. suggested that Edel not just photograph people but rather paint them and incorporate their life stories." |
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"The Lightguard"
A portrait of the Shamash ,guardian of the memorial lights in the Algerian Synagogue Paris .
I just completed this painting from a sketch I did on location a few years ago .
DR.BENNY's PORTRAIT
Dear Friends , Thanks to everyone for appreciating Dr. Benny's painting . Everyone loved the painting recently featured at Lubavitch B.C.'s Gold Plate Dinner which honored Dr. Benny for his contribution to society & community~ May joy and light increase for all for many years to come ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Around 1965 Edel served an apprenticeship in management ,art design and styling with Steiner's beauty salons in England.
The company was accredited with a Royal Warrant by HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. |
ESTEE LAUDERSteiner's clientele were always enormously invigorated by Estee Lauder's beauty facials ,cosmetics and her personal elegant coiffures which often graced the pages of Vogue magazine.
Everyone desired the Estee Lauder look and so for publicity I was commissioned to sketch a huge charcoal wall mural depicting Estee Lauder's gracious hairstyle mirrored by the similar movement of two curvaceous swans. Around 1965 I vaguely remember Estee Lauder in person coming to open a facial salon.That seems like a dream from a previous lifetime almost 50 years ago ! In trying to refresh my memory I recently painted this portrait of Esther Lauder as I remember her . I completed the pastel and gouache sketch on Sept. 11 2013 . |
I recently completed my oil painting "The Hoshanah Rebbe " as a memory of meeting The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Hoshana Rabboh in 1973 ,exactly 40 years ago .
While journeying to Israel as a volunteer for The Yom Kippur war , a doctor at JFK airport delayed me from travelling as he discovered I had a potentially dangerous inflamed lymph node in my neck .
That same doctor then introduced me to the Rebbe at 770 after the Sukkot Hoshana Rabboh services and asked the Rebbe if I could continue my journey .
The Rebbe turned to me and said that I should continue on to Israel and gave me a blessing that everything would turn out well . Thank G-d the war was quickly over and I went on to sing at the Israel National Opera where I met my wife.
That was exactly 40 years ago and so as a memory of that miraculous Hoshanah Rabboh I painted " The Hoshanah Rebbe"
While journeying to Israel as a volunteer for The Yom Kippur war , a doctor at JFK airport delayed me from travelling as he discovered I had a potentially dangerous inflamed lymph node in my neck .
That same doctor then introduced me to the Rebbe at 770 after the Sukkot Hoshana Rabboh services and asked the Rebbe if I could continue my journey .
The Rebbe turned to me and said that I should continue on to Israel and gave me a blessing that everything would turn out well . Thank G-d the war was quickly over and I went on to sing at the Israel National Opera where I met my wife.
That was exactly 40 years ago and so as a memory of that miraculous Hoshanah Rabboh I painted " The Hoshanah Rebbe"
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