1894 - Born in Novo-Georgiyevsk, Russia. He studied at the Academy of Art in
Odessa.
1919 - Immigrates to Palestine.
1930’s - Travels to Paris several times where he encountered
the art of Matisse, Picasso and artists of the Jewish School of Paris.
Litvinovsky had a striking physics, an athletic type, amateur boxer and
long-distance runner. He was a painter of the erotic and sensual for whom the
canvas became a "lovers’ palette". Under his brush the world became one of color
and form. Women, men, children and animals were transferred into bright splashes
of color and surprising, energetic forms.
Litvinovsky's images were drawn from his inner world with no
attempt to depict a realistic environment or any defined space. His figures were
formal and flat motives painted as concepts across a neutral, abstract
background. Litvinovsky made a dramatic use of modernist styles, especially
Cubism as reflected in the Russian painting of the 1920’s along with usage of
bright colors, reminiscent of Matisse.