Paula Winokur

Masada, Fortress of Heroes

1983

This artwork titled "Wave" 1975 is a metal and glass sculpture multiple by noted Israeli artist Menashe Kadishman 1932-2015. It is signed, numbered 1/7 and dated under the main metal part. The size assembled as intended by the artist is 21 inches long, 10 inches high and 3 inches wide. The all metal and the glass and metal part disunited are 18 x 10 inches each. The rectangle part at the top is movable and can be oriented in different position (see picture #1 and #7) It is in very good condition. The large version of this sculpture is referenced in the two following publications: Pierre Restany, Kadishman, Tel Aviv, 1996, illustration of the large version pp. 76-77 Jacob Baal-Teshuva (ed.), Menashe Kadishman, Munich, 2007, no. 22, illustration of the large version p. 17 About the artist: Menashe Kadishman (August 21, 1932 - May 8, 2015) was an Israeli sculptor and painter. Menashe Kadishman was born in the British Mandate Palestine in 1932. His father, who was a pioneer, died when Kadishman was 15 years old. The young Menashe left school to help his mother with housework and to earn money. From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem. In 1959, he moved to London, where he attended Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art. During 1959 and 1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro and Reg Butler. He remained there until 1972; he had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery. His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style, On May 8, 2015, Menashe Kadishman died after he was hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. EDUCATION 1947-50 Studies with sculptor Moshe Sternschuss, Avni Institute, Tel Aviv 1954 Studies with sculptor Rudi Lehman, Jerusalem 1959-61 St. Martin's School of Art, London 1961-62 Slade School of Art, University of London PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Bass Museum, Miami, FL Buhsnami Sculpture Garden, Burton, TX Centro d'Arte Contemporaneo, Prato, Italy City of Tel Aviv, Israel City of Breda, The Netherlands City of Kirchheim, West Germany City of Seoul (Olympic Park), South Korea City of Toronto, Canada Columbia University, New York Ein Herod Museum, Yizre'el Valley, Israel Faret Tachikawa, City of Tachikawa, Japan Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Hebrew University, Jerusalem Heichal Hatarbut, Tel Aviv High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Israel Museum, Jerusalem Jewish Museum, New York Lehigh University, Allentown, PA Louisiana Museum, Denmark Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama Museo de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, West Germany Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Munich, West Germany Museum of Modern Art, Skopje, Yugoslavia Open Air Sculpture, Kirchheim, West Germany Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Rabbinical Seminary, Cincinnati, OH Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY Tate Gallery, London Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Wilhelm-Lehmbruk Museum, Duisburg, West Germany PRIZES AND AWARDS 1960 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship 1961 Sainsbury Scholarship, London 1967 First Prize for Sculpture, 5th Paris Biennale 1978 Sandberg Prize, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1981 The Eugen Kolb Prize, The Tel Aviv Museum 1981 Prize of the Jury, Norwegian International Print Biennale, Fredrickstad 1984 The Pundik Prize, The Tel Aviv Museum 1989 King Solomon Award, America-Israel Foundation, New York ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 1965 Harlow Arts Festival, Harlow, England 1970 The Jewish Museum, New York 1972 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, West Germany 1975 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1978 Venice Biennale, Venice 1979 Israel Museum, Jerusalem: The Kadishman Connection 1981 University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel 1981 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv 1983 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 1983 ICC, Antwerp, Belgium 1984 Fabien Booulakia, Paris 1984 The Jewish Museum, New York 1986 De Beyerd, Centre of Contemporary Art, Breda, The Netherlands 1986 Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, The Netherlands: Installation 1987 The Tel Aviv Museum, Myth Transformed: Painting and Monumental 1987 Sculpture of Menashe Kadishman, Tel Aviv 1988 Kammermusiksaal, Menashe Kadishman: Sacrifice of Isaac, Berlin, Germany 1988 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 1988-89 Kniestedter Kirche Stadtmuseum, Salzgitterbad, Germany 1990 Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1994 Giuliano Gori, Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia, Italy SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1980 International Sculpture Symposium, Washington, D.C. 1980 Contemporary Art Meeting, Tel Hai, Israel 1980 The Israel Museum, Borders, Jerusalem 1980 David's Tower, The Jerusalem City Museum, Jerusalem the Israeli 1980 Printmaker, Jerusalem 1981 Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Young Art from Israel...

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