Education
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Laventhol graduated Yale University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy, and eventually spent 10 years in Europe, making his home in Mallorca, Spain.
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Hank Laventhol
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He did post graduate studies at Columbia University and went into business in New York City. At the age of 32, he left for Europe to pursue additional studies in art He had four solo shows in London and one-man-exhibitions in Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Florence, Zürich, Lausanne and Barcelona.
In the United States his work was seen at five solo shows at the Bodley Gallery in New York City.
He also showed in other major United States cities. Laventhol’s work is in corporate and private collections, museums and libraries, including The National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, Yale University Art Gallery, The Nasher Museum of Art at the Art Museum of Duke University, Durham, North.Carolina, The Print Collection of The New York Public Library, The Free Library of Philadelphia, and Le Bibliotèque Nationale de France in Paris.
Laventhol has been listed in Benezit, the definitive Directory of Painters and Print Makers. Besides painting and sculpting in multiple media, Laventhol published editions of etchings and color aquatints, a demanding and precise process that provided him with a variety of color and texture, unrivaled by any other etching technique.
He owned two etching presses and pulled his own prints.
Publishers include Associated American Artists, New York Graphic Society, Original Print Collectors Group Limited., Pierre Chave, France and George Visat, Paris, who also published graphic editions of, among others, René Magritte, Manitoba Ray, Roberto Matta. Critics called Laventhol a surrealist. The artist, however, preferred to think of his work as dealing with fantasy realism.
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