David Leverett

Abstract Landscape "Storm" Oil Painting British Artist David Leverett

This is a bold, abstracted city scene. It appears to be New York City, It could be any large metropolis with skyscrapers and a bustle to it. It is signed S. Chait and signed with ini...

Shimon Avni Shimon Avny, painter, born 1932, Paris Shimon Avny (Stein) was born in Paris, France. He grew up in the Belville neighborhood. In 1942, when the Nazis occupied France, he was separated from his family. His mother and brothers were killed in the Holocaust. After the war, he was transferred from his hiding place to the town of Andlis. He immigrated to Israel with Youth Aliyah in 1948. In 1956, he joined Kibbutz Ra'im. In 1957, he studied painting with Joseph Zaritsky, Avigdor Stematzky and Haim Kiewe. He also studied with Yehezekel Streichman at the Avni Institute. At the end of the 1950s, he went to Paris to continue his studies. In the 1980s, he joined the Radius artists cooperative. Avny's early work was influenced by the abstractionism of the New Horizons group. In 1963, he took part in the group's exhibition at Ein Harod. His work is characterized by bold colors, expressive brushstrokes and flat planes. He is a figurative painter, but some of his work incorporates symbolic imagery. Education 1957 Painting with Joseph Zaritsky, Avigdor Stematsky and Haim Kiewe Avni Institute, Tel Aviv, with Yehezkel Streichman Grande Chaumiere Academy, Paris, 1958 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1961 Fine Arts Academy, Rome Photography and television, Paris, 1965-67 Teaching Lectured abroad for the Ministry of Education and Culture, 1969-71 Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, painting, 1974-78 College of Visual Arts, Beersheba, 1975-81 Headmaster of the Art Institute, Rehovot, 1975-85 1981-85 and 1988-92 Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon Since1992 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv, Teacher and coordinator of the Arts Department Awards And Prizes 1975 The America-Israel Cultural Fund Scholarship 1985 Scholarship, The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 1993 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Scholarship for a Young Artist. A member of the Aclim Group, which was organized in 1974. The group was established in the wake of the Yom Kippur War to point to the necessity of raising the public's consciousness of its Israeli identity in all cultural spheres. Participants in the group's exhibitions until 1983 were: Eliyahu Gat, Rahel Shavit, Ori Reisman, Avram Rafael, Michael Gross, Hannah Levy...

Life in Nature Canvas measures 31.5 X 39.5 (I believe this is oil it might also be acrylic.) Hand signed recto and signed and titled verso. Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the School of Sculpture and Ceramics in Mendoza, he studied under the Italian-Argentinean sculptor Libero Badii whom he credits with putting him on the right path. “He taught me principals, not only related to sculpture, but human and philosophic principals. Shemi also carefully studied the work of such masters as Picasso, Caravaggio, Frank Stella and Matisse. “From each one of these great artists I learned something from observing them,” he says. In 1961, at the age of 20, Shemi immigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Carmia of which he was a member for twenty years. There he worked in agriculture and also as a sculptor working with wood and clay. Several of his large-scale fiberglass and polyester projects are situated in public buildings. He was a student of German-Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann, a pioneer of the artistic movement known as “Canaanism.” Canaanite art was an effort to create a direct relationship with the land, bypassing historic Jewish connotations—hence the land’s primordial name is used. Canaanite works, with an emphasis on the inter-action of simple shapes, bear a deliberate resemblance to the sculpture and ritual art of early civilizations of the Middle East prior to Judaism, always with an eye to the fusion of man and the land itself. Though sculpture dominated his early years as an artist, in the mid ’70s Shemi developed the idea of the “soft painting” medium. Beginning with a color drawing done to scale, Shemi layers onto the drawing irregularly shaped pieces of variously textured and colored fabrics. Using a threadless 9,000-needle sewing machine, the fabrics are meshed to one another and to the background, resulting in vibrant carpet tapestry compositions infused with exuberant color and explosive movement. These are neither aubusson nor pile but more of a felt wall hanging...

Colorful mid century vibrant abstract scene of boats in harbour. Signed and titled in Hebrew recto and titled and signed in Hebrew and English verso. Joseph Weiss, Painter, Sculptor, Woodcuts. b. 1916, Romania. Immigrated 1939 to Israel. Member of Kibbutz Evron. Studies: Klug, Romania, painting and graphics; advanced studies, Oranim Art Institute, Tivon; with Dada founder Marcel Janco and Zvi Mairovich. He was a Romanian-Austrian-Israeli painter producing mainly color woodcuts and sculpture, who was born at Romania in 1916. The First Exhibition of Israeli Graphic-Art, Museum for Modern Art, Haifa. 1967 Artists: Micha Ullman, Jakob Steinhardt, Jacob Pins, Noemi Smilansky, Miron Sima...

Norman Carton (1908 – 1980) was an American artist and educator known for abstract expressionist art. He was born in the Ukraine region of Imperial Russi...

Edward Avedisian ( 1936-2007 ) 15 X 8.5 Oil paint on wood panel This is not signed on front. It bears his name verso. Provenance: Hudson, N.Y. estate of noted Art Collector Albert B...

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....

Vaclav Vytlacil (Vas-lav Vit-la-chil) was born in New York City in 1892 to Czech parents, but was raised in Chicago. He was an artist since boyhood, becoming the youngest student to ...

This intricate artwork unfolds as a multi-dimensional tapestry, where each layer contributes to a narrative that resonates with the soul. At the uppermost layer, a delicate dance of...