Obituary: Yehouda Chaki, 84, expressed both joy and pain in his vibrant paintings

Artist Yehouda Chaki celebrates life with his landscape paintings at Galerie de Bellefeuille and Mount Moriah at the JGH HEATHER SOLOMON PHOTO

The creative force was so strong in Montreal artist Yehouda Chaki that he did not allow a degenerative illness to stop him from painting the brilliantly coloured, large-scale scenes inspired by nature that were his signature. Even in recent years, as Parkinson’s robbed him of his ability to walk and even talk, Chaki was determined […]

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