Motke Blum

Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Painting White on White

Motke Blum was born in Racacun, Romania in 1925. Early in his childhood, the Blum family moved to Bucharest where they settled in a house situated near a circus. The circus would become young Blum's greatest love. He befriended several of the clowns and other performers and, when not painting or playing in clay, Blum could be found enjoying the company of these spirited entertainers. These experiences would later become a recurring theme in many of his works of art. In 1938, he was taken by the Romanian Iron Guard. When the Germans invaded Romania, Blum was taken to a forced labor camp. Even during his imprisonment, he continued to create art, painting on the walls of the camp. He escaped the Nazi camp in 1944 and boarded an immigrants' ship to Israel. One of the three ships in the convoy was sunk by a German torpedo. Motke later incorporated shipwrecks, boats, and other maritime subjects into several of his paintings. Studies, Bezalel, Jerusalem, Enamel, Silversmithing, Painting and Sculpture. 1956 Seminar in the dep. of design in the royal silver factory of Zeist, The Netherlands. Over the course of his long and fruitful career, Blum showed internationally at over fifty one-man-shows with exhibits in Israel, Holland, England, Belgium, the United States, France, Australia, and more. His art has been commissioned for public buildings and by prominent figures in Israel and around the world, and a series of posters were commissioned by the Justice Ministry and the Ministry of Tourism. Group exhibition Rina Gallery, Jerusalem Artists: Motke Blum, Efraim Fima (Roytenberg, Ephraim) Zelig Segal, David Sharir, Joseph Halevi...

PATRICK ARCHER (American b. 1926) Signed and dated at lower right, signed and titled on label verso. Abstract landscape with vibrant dayglo fluorescent colors Palm Beach Florida ar...

"Tesserae" . 4 pieces Mosaic, Acrylic and mixed media on panel. Painting composed by 4 small format Abstrac landscapes Dimension art: Every item is 30 x 30 x 3 cm and the 4 pieces ...

"Tesserae 7". Mixed media on panel, 30x30 cm. Small-format painting with intense chromaticism and texture, with relief marking the different planes. The dense brushstrokes and the play of light create a landscape of great expressive force. This piece is also thought to be combined to form a mosaic of 4 or 8 pieces with the following reference items by the same artist: 1. Item ref. LU74439094552 2. Item ref. LU74439096932 3. Item ref. LU74439097202 4. Item ref. LU74439097242 5. Item ref. LU74439097372 6. Item ref. LU74439097452 8. Item ref. LU74439096602 (The artist frames almost all his paintings with a wooden strip between 0.5 and 1 cm. Thick, which can be removed at will of the client). ABOUT THE ARTIST Ángel Luis Úbeda...