Katherine Librowicz

Mother & Child

Judaic Jerusalem scene oil on canvas, signed l.r. with artist's Hebrew name, Dated Painting measures framed 45 x 21. Leonid Balaklav was born in 1956 in Beltze, Moldavia, USSR. Graduated from the Art school in Kiev (1971-1973), and from the Art Institute in Odessa (1974). Repatriated to Israel in 1990. Teacher of painting. Lives and works in Jerusalem. The works by Leonid Balaklav are exhibited in museums, galleries and private collections in Israel and worldwide. Awards: 1987: Gold Medal at the International Film Festival, Tokyo 1995: Jerusalem Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Jerusalem 2002: The Israel Museum & Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist Solo Exhibitions: 1978: Scientists' House, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR 1988: The Jewish Center, Moscow, USSR 1989: Central Artists' House, Kishinev, Moldavia, USSR 1991: "Immigrant Artists", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv 1993: "Cypresses", Artists' House, Jerusalem 1994: "From There to Here", Ein Harod Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel 1997: "Drawings '93-'97", Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel 1997: "New Works", Artists' House, Jerusalem 1998: "Landscape and Still-Life", Artspace, Jerusalem 2000: "Portrait", Artspace, Jerusalem 2002-2003: "The Face of the Light", Ein Harod Museum, Ashdod Museum, Rehovot Museum, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa, Bat Yam Museum (an exhibition of the Forum of Israeli Art Museums) Group Exhibitions: 1977-1986: Participated in ten group exhibitions in Moldavia, USSR 1990: "Immigrants '90", The Zionist Organization of America House, Tel Aviv 1990: "Immigrant Artists", Artists' House, Jerusalem 1990: "Russian Avantgarde...

In the tradition of the Jewish European artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Moritz Oppenheim, Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury, Jakob Steinhardt, Jehudo Epstein, Stanislaus Bender...

Genre: Modern Subject: Jewish Elder , Judaic Prayer Surface: Board Country: United States signed lower left Donald Roy Purdy is an American painter whose work evolved through a rang...

Belarusian born Israeli artist. lived in germany studied at the Bezalel School. Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is Israel's national school of art. Established in 1906 by Jewish...

Ozer Shabat 1978-1901 Ozer Shabbat was an Israeli painter, a resident of Haifa. Belonged to the Palestine Expressionist group of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Shabbat was born in Wolbrom, Poland. At the end of the First World War he went to Holland for agricultural training in the framework of the HeChalutz movement, prior to his immigration to Palestine. In 1920 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined the Hulda group. Later he joined the Merhavia group and there he began painting. Because of his desire to study drawing, he left the group and moved to Jerusalem. In 1921, he wrote articles in the newspaper "HaSadeh" on the subject of agriculture and Dutch cheese. Ozer Shabath won the first prize in a competition for the design of the Dutch Consulate's Garden in Jerusalem, enabling him to travel to Paris in 1923 to study painting. Until 1925 he studied painting at the Grande Chaumiere Academy in Paris. This year he returned to Eretz Israel and settled in Haifa, where he lived until his death. In 1928 he participated for the first time in an exhibition of Eretz Israel artists at the Tower of David. Since then he has participated in all the general exhibitions of Israeli artists. In 1934, together with painters Menachem Shemi, Avraham Mohar, Zvi Meirovitch and others, he founded the Haifa Artists' Group. In 1935-36 he toured Europe and visited Italy, France and England. During his visit, he maintained contacts with artists from the Jewish school of Paris. He has exhibited in several solo exhibitions, represented Israel in exhibitions in Europe and participated in international exhibitions in New York, Johannesburg and Zurich. In 1958 he represented Israel in the Venice Biennale. In 1960, Shabat, together with Elchanan Halpern he represented the Israeli Painters Association at the International Congress of Plastic Arts held in Vienna, Austria . In the 40s and 50s he focused on landscape pictures. However, despite the focus on the Israeli landscape, the approach is universal in the framework of the post-Impressionist painting school. In the 1960s, his approach changed and he turned more to abstraction. The abstract direction gradually evolved. The point of departure of the abstract approach is the architectural landscape, but this view loses its real character and becomes only imaginary: the buildings lose their real character and turn into exclusive geometric areas that are usually set against a dark background. Over time, architecture captured the lion's share of his paintings. Cities like Safed, Jaffa and Jerusalem are the subject of many pictures. He taught painting and art at the schools of the kibbutzim in Ramat Yochanan and Kfar Yehoshua, in high schools in Haifa and in the IDF and Gordon seminars. His paintings were purchased and are in the permanent collection of the Bezalel National Museum (now the Israel Museum), Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa Maritime Museum, Acre Municipal Museum. Select Solo exhibitions 1936 - Nadler Gallery, Haifa. 1943 - The Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 1952 - Artists House, Haifa. 1953 - Bezalel House, Jerusalem. 1955 - Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland. 1955 - The Writers' Club, Haifa. 1959 - Artists House, Haifa. 1960 - Museum of Modern Art, Haifa. 1962 - Museum of Modern Art, Haifa. 1963 - Gallery 220, Tel Aviv. 1968 - The Municipal Museum of Beit Emanuel, Ramat Gan. 1979 - Memorial exhibition marking the first anniversary...

Rare Judaica Art. Jewish genre scene. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim, Isidor Kauffman and Maurycy Gottlieb and later of Tully Filmus, Zalman Kle...

Famed female illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accompl...

"Les Artistes du Cirque" is an original painting in ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper by leading Fauvist artist Kees Van Dongen, signed in the lower right. In the piece, two circus performers stand against against a wall. On the left, a pale woman in a blue leotard with red flowers on the shoulder stands with her arms crossed, looking out at the viewer. The painter fills in her tights with delicate white brushstrokes, lending them an almost iridescent appearance. Her strawberry blond hair is piled on top of her hair according to the fashion of the period. On the right, an African man stands in a vivid orange toga, looking somewhere off to the left. His feet are clad in bright white shoes...

Raoul Dufy 1877-1953 French The Visit of the English Squadron to Le Havre Signed "Raoul Dufy" (lower center) Watercolor and gouache on paper Growing up along the coastline of the...

Marie Vorobieff Marevna 1892-1984 Russian La Danse Watercolour Signed lower right Subject: 30 3/8" high x 22 7/8" wide Frame: 40" high x 33 1/8" wide

Parade Mexicaine by Jean Dufy (1888-1964) Gouache on Ingres paper 45.1 x 55.6 cm (17³/₄ x 21⁷/₈ inches) Signed Jean Dufy lower centre Executed circa 1948-1950 Provenance Galerie Käte Perls, Paris/New York (titled Cirques) Christie’s New York, 26th February 1990 (titled Le Cirque) Private collection, Germany Literature Jacques Bailly, Jean Dufy Catalogue Raisonné de l’OEuvre, vol.1, Paris 2002, no J.473, p. 261 (illustrated) Born into a large family in the busy port-city of La Havre in northern France, Jean Dufy was the younger brother of the Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. In order to please his accountant father, Jean was...

Post-impressionist gouache on paper by French artist Andrée Ruy Petroff, signed bottom left. A totally charming painting of a young boy sitting on ...