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Zvi Raphaeli
Large Judaica Jerusalem Oil Painting Israeli Jewish Rabbi Artist Tzvi Raphaely

c.1960s-1970's

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Rabbi Portrait, Oil Painting Framed: 37.5 x 26. Canvas: 31.5 X 20 Bears original label verso from Safrai Gallery Lovely Israeli Chassidic Rabbi portrait oil painting, vibrant colorful painting. Hand signed in Hebrew and English. Done in a style similar and influenced by Marc Chagall. Svi Raphaely (also known as Tzvi Raphaeli, Zvi Raphaely) was an Israeli impressionist painter. A Rabbi and an artist, he successfully merged two divergent careers together into a blend of beauty and harmony. Tzvi Raphaeli was born in Egypt, moved to Paris, France at early age, where later he could study art at the famous Ecole des Beaux Arts. During the dark years of World War II he studied art at the famous Ecole des Beaux Arts under the direction and guidance of Jean Souverbie. While a student there, he was also a "Maquizard", a member of the FFI, the French underground resistance movement in occupied France. In 1945, after WWII, he moved to Jerusalem, Israel. He studied In the Bezalel Museum, under the famous Israeli artist Jacob Steinhardt, Raphaeli once again took brush in hand to transmit to works of art his emotions and feeling in the new land-the Holy Land. Most of his paintings, oil or water, describe market places, Hasidic Jews, old streets of Jerusalem and Zefat. He also loved the landscape scenes when he painted flowers or olive trees. All his paintings, whatever the subject, are infused with delight, affection and poetry. Kabbalist and world renowned French-Israeli Judaic Fauvist artist Zvi Raphaeli of Jerusalem. Well known for his "Street scene in Jerusalem" This is a more rare and unusual subject matter to find. All his paintings and ceramics, whatever the subject, are infused with delight, affection and poetry. Austrian born Israeli Art critic Theodore F. Meisels once wrote in The Jerusalem Post: "Should Raphaely, ever attempt to harmonize his two worlds, then this genuine painting 'Chassid' could develop into an Israeli Chagall...". On an occasion Marc Chagall himself said about Raphaely: "Raphaely is one very unique painter who knows what the color wants...". Zvi Raphaeli died in 2005, leaving behind memories of the Jewish street in Shtetl Israel from the early 20th century. On the Israel Museum website they have listed an exhibition of his Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv 1967 Artists: Avraham Binder, Motke Blum, (Mordechai) Samuel Bak, Yosl Bergner, Nahum Gilboa, Jean David, Marcel Janco, Lea Nikel, Jacob Pins, Esther Peretz Arad, Dani Karavan, Reuven Rubin, Zvi Raphaely, Yossi Stern, David Sharir and many others.
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