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The Jewish Wedding
A joyful and vibrant original serigraph by Jovan Obican. A traditional Jewish wedding ceremony rendered in bold colour and playful line, with klezmer musicians celebrating alongside the bridal couple.
- Medium: Original Serigraph — Screen Print
- Artist: Jovan Obican (French-Yugoslav, 1918–1986)
- Edition: 244 of 300
- Style: Naïve Folk Art
- Condition: Excellent
- Provenance: Private Collection
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Jovan Obican was born in Cannes in 1918 to Yugoslavian parents. Legally trained but artistically driven, he abandoned law and moved to the United States in 1959 to pursue art full time. He developed a deep fascination with the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe — their ceremonies, their music, their colour, and their joy.
The Jewish Wedding captures all of that fascination in a single image. Under the chuppah, the traditional wedding canopy, a rabbi reads from sacred text as the bridal couple stands in quiet ceremony. To the right, three klezmer musicians play with complete absorption, their instruments filling the fiery red background with implied sound.
Obican’s style draws consistent comparisons to Marc Chagall and Jean Dubuffet. The same dreamlike quality, the same joyful disregard for anatomical convention, the same sense that colour and feeling matter more than realism. This is number 244 from a limited edition of 300, pencil signed by the artist in the lower right margin.
