One-eyed Israel Litwak. a stocky little grey-fringed man, was too old to make furniture any more. At 68. he was not even up to varnishing, and so he lost his job. "Then," he recalls, "all of a sudden came out of me an artist!"
This week the Russian-born Brooklyn cabinetmaker was 78, and on his way to minor fame in the screwball wing of primitive (self-taught) art. Fifteen of his "primitives" were on exhibit in a Manhattan gallery and selling well, at $300-$750 apiece.
Litwak is already hankering after the mantle of famed Primitive Henri...
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