10 Facts About Menachem Gueffen

Menachem Gueffen was an Israeli painter and caricaturist.

Menachem Gueffen produces many drawings, and works essentially from sketches of models.

Menachem Gueffen has illustrated certain books: Robinson Crusoe published by the Israeli publisher Am Oved in the 1960s and he provided the illustrations for The World's Best Jewish Jokes by Ben Eliezer, published in 1984.

From 1967 to 1988, Menachem Gueffen lived and worked in London, in Europe and the United States.

Menachem Gueffen's work appears in auctions in Europe and Israel.

The Museum of Natural History of New York commissioned a work of five paintings by Menachem Gueffen depicting the "Life and Cycle of Judaism".

Menachem Gueffen's works are predominantly of women and his style has been described as "figurative-expressionist".

However, the impact of encountering Rembrandt's Night Watch was one which spanned some twenty years for Menachem Gueffen, and culminated in Dialogue with Rembrandt's Night Watch, a work of nine paintings.

Menachem Gueffen was married two more times, before marrying Diana Rigg from 1973 to 1976.

Menachem Gueffen married Judy Hillman in 1987 and was based in France from 1991 until his death in 2016.