Koki Doktori

Koki Doktori

Provenance

Doktori was born in Kifri, Iraq, in 1941, and immigrated to Israel in 1950. After graduating high school he studied art and interior design. In 1969 he moved to New York. His works from the 1960s and 1970s were influenced by minimalist art. Beginning in the 1980s, he began painting and drawing in the expressive style.

He writes: “I have been trained as a sculptor. Therefore, my paintings are sculpturally oriented and they are built with layers of paint.  They finally arrive at a place where the boundary between figurative and abstraction is truly blurred.  The power of the work is in the line and in the ability to connect between tradition, subject and object figuration, painting and sculpture.”

Koki Doktori and his wife, Lani, met Daniel and Joy Ferro through their mutual friend Nissan Engel, and have been close friends of the Ferro family ever since. His colorful abstract portrait of Daniel and Joy proudly hangs over the Steinway grand piano in their living room!