11 of June, 2013, 5.30 p.m.: Opening of the exhibition „Cécile Reims’ Engravings”.

The exhibition of the graphic works byCécile Reims Cécile Reims Engravings (Cécile Reims l‘oeuvre gravé).The Litvak graphic artist Cécile Reims was born in France in 1927. Her mother died early and the little girl lived with her maternal grandparents in a traditional Jewish family in Kybartai, Lithuania. In 1933 Cécile returned to Paris to live with her father and, while still at school, she discovered her vocation. During the Second World War the family was scattered and she left for Palestine in 1946, where she took part in the fight for an independent state of Israel. Health problems brought her back to France. In 1949 she devoted her time to art and became a pupil of the renowned engraver Joseph Hecht (1891–1951). In 1951, she met the artist and writer, Fred Deux (b. 1924), who became her personal friend and greatly influenced her work as a black and white artist. Cécile Reims works are kept at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme in Paris and the l’Hospice Saint-RochMuseum in Issoudun, France. In 2011 the artist was awarded the Prix Maratier prize from the Pro-MAJH Fund that was established by Claire Maratier, a daughter of the painter Michel Kikoine.

The Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum kindly invites you to the

Miriam Meras and Žibuntas Mikšys

graphic art works exhibition,

in the Tolerance Center (Naugarduko Str. 10 /2, Vilnius).

The family of the famous artists, immigrants from Lithuania, live and work in Paris. Meras, daughter of the famous Lithuanian prose and screenplay writer Icchokas Meras, immigrated to Israel in 1972 together with her parents; later she settled in Paris. Mikšys, who will be ninety years old this year, left for the West during the years of WWII and in 1962 also chose Paris as his new home.

Miriam Meras and Žibuntas Mikšys’ exhibition was organised by the Laiptų Galerija culture centre in Šiauliai that initiated the artists’ first exhibition in 1996 after Lithuania’s independence was restored in 1990.

Exhibition will be opened until 2013 06 14.