Itzchak Tarkay (Hebrew: יצחק טרקאי; 1935 – June 3, 2012) was an Israeli painter and graphic artist.[1] He used trade dress to protect his style from being emulated via Romm Art Creations Ltd. v. Simcha International, Inc.,[2] a case that Tarkay won.[3]
Biography
Itzchak Tarkay was born in Subotica, on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border. At the age of 9, Tarkay and his family were sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp by the Nazis until Allied liberation freed them a year later.[citation needed]
Tarkay died in 2012 at the age of 77 in Detroit, where he visited as a guest of Park West Gallery.[1]
Art career
Tarkay worked in acrylic and watercolor. He was also a graphic artist and his rich tapestry of form and color was achieved primarily through the use of the serigraph. In his serigraphs, many colors are laid over one another and used to create texture and transparency. In his later years, Tarkay mentored younger Israeli artists including David Najar, Yuval Wolfson and Mark Kanovich who often visited his studio, worked alongside him and received his critiques. Tarkay was also the only artist to collaborate with Yaacov Agam (1928). He and Agam created two paintings which incorporated both artists' imagery in a single painting.[citation needed]
His art is focused on almost dream images of elegant women, often in pairs. Tarkay's early works, some of which the Israeli art critic Joav BarEl classified as made in the De Staëlian style,[5] were completed by him personally. His later works were drawn by him and then colored in by assisting artists on staff.
^Daniel Grant (2010). The Business of Being an Artist. Allworth Press. ISBN9781581157383. In the Tarkay case, according to the written decision, the court examined "the color patterns and shading of the Tarkay works, the placement of figures in each of the pictures examined, the physical attributes of his women, the depiction of women sitting and reclining, their characteristic clothing [vis-a-vis] those portrayed by Patricia [Govezensky]" to find that "consumer confusion is a likely result."
^Leonard DuBoff (2017). Art law cases and materials (Second ed.). ISBN9781454887935.
^Gabriel Talphir, ed. (1967). "[Unknown]". Gazith. 24. Tel Aviv: 200. Retrieved 17 March 2022. הצייר , כבן 26 , שלמד בסטודיה ע"ש אבני , מגדיר היטב את צורותיו המבריקות, הגאומטריות למחצה, על רקע לבן. הוא התבונן היטב בפימה מצד אחד, בארגוב מצד שני, יש לו גוונים כחולים נאים הצורות לא עוצבו יחד בדרך אורגאנית, וההעזות מדומות.
