Jacob Baal-Teshuva

Jacob Baal-Teshuva (born 1929) is an Israeli-American author, journalist, art critic, appraiser, and curator.

Jacob-Baal-Teshuva

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York University. Beginning his career as a freelance journalist at the United Nations, his character, skills, and love of art enabled him to promote artists in print while developing deep, lifelong relationships with artists and collectors. He is a high-level art specialist whose writings, exhibitions, and collection building embrace artists such as Marc Chagall, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Andy Warhol among others. Aviva, his wife, was also an artist. They amassed a collection of works, the majority of which were sold in a single collection sale at Sothebys; this sale, "An Artistic Home," records a partial list of their favorite artists. Jacob maintains one of the most important private art libraries in the world. He lives and works in New York and Paris.