Mordechai Avniel: Still Life & Flower Vase 60s/Israeli Jewish Russian Watercolor

Description: Mordechai Avniel 1900, Minsk, Russia (nowadays Belarus) - 1990, Haifa, Israel Still Life With Flower Vase, 1950s Original Hand-Signed Watercolor - circa the 1950sArtist Name: Mordechai Avniel Title: Still life with flower vase Signature Description: Hand-signed in Hebrew lower right and in English lower left Technique: Watercolor on paper Image Size: 50 x 70 cm / 19.69" x 27.56" inch Frame: The painting is unframed Condition: In overall good condition, an old tear repair lower middle, some light aging spots consistent with the age and use. Artist's Biography: Mordechai Avniel, Painter and Lawyer. b. 1900, Russia. Immigrated to Eretz Israel 1921. Died in Haifa 1990. Studies 1913-17 Art School, Katrinburg, Russia; 1917-19 High School for Art, Katrinburg; 1923 Bezalel, Jerusalem. Teaching 1924-28 Bezalel, directed and taught in sculpture department. Prizes 1952 Hermann Struck Prize by Haifa Municipality 1958 10th Anniversary Prize for Water Colours, Ramat Gan; 1961 Histadrut Prize; 1977 First Prize Haifa Municipality. From 1930 lived in Haifa. 1958 Participated in Venice Biennale. His works are in museums and collections in Israel and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum, New York and Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.Mordechai Avniel (1900 – 1989), variant name Mordecai Avniel, was an Israeli painter and sculptor, born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus. He studied fine arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia (1913-19) and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1923). Avniel immigrated to Palestine in 1921 where he first worked as a pioneer in citrus plantations near Petah Tikva. In 1923, at the urging of Boris Schatz, he went to Jerusalem to further his art studies at Bezalel. He later taught painting and sculpture at the school, and served a term as director of the Small Sculpture Section of the Sculpture Department (1924-28).From 1935 on, Avniel lived in Haifa. While he is best known as a leading Israeli artist, Avniel was also a prominent lawyer and a founding partner of the Haifa firm Avniel, Salomon & Company. He was a regular participant in the group exhibitions of the Painters and Sculptors' Association of Israel and, among other achievements, was awarded the following accolades during his lifetime: Herman Struck Prize (1952), Tenth Anniversary Prize for Watercolours, Ramat Gan (1958), Histadrut Prize (1961), and First Prize Haifa Municipality (1977). He represented Israel at the 1958 Venice Biennale and the 1962 International Art Seminar at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Avniel was a member of the Artists' Colony in Safed and maintained an active studio on Mount Carmel in the Haifa environs. Avniel's works can be found in museums and private collections in Israel and abroad. He died in 1989.Avniel is best known for his deft and singular landscape work. He said of his scenes of Israel: "I loved the Israeli landscape. While roaming the country extensively, I gradually absorbed its atmosphere, its lights and moods, the view of mountains and valleys, the Sea of Galilee and the expanse of the Mediterranean. Again and again, I experimented painting and drawing them, at the same time trying to teach myself contemporary art. And thus I gradually shook off the academic conception, and became freer. I tried with my whole being to find my own style. The clouds floating above the Galilee or the Dead Sea - both below sea level - bring about an almost constant change of light, colour and atmosphere. The scenery takes on certain shapes and discards them again. These clouds taught me to understand space. I do not see my landscapes optically; they are a fusion of colours blended harmoniously - abstract at times, and at other times expressions of my inner feelings. Only after years did I find self-expression in my landscape, in the light, the atmosphere and the sun of Israel. My motif is always the non-static landscape with all its contrasts: the rays of dawn, the stillness of the day's heat, the evening's twilight, radiance and dimness, wind and rain, a night's storm."Avniel's manipulations of light and colour share much with those of compatriot artists Shimshon Holzman and Joseph Kossonogi, and his finest works constitute some of the most sophisticated examples of twentieth-century Israeli landscape painting. Avniel's work has not yet garnered the full attention of the growing Israeli art market, nor has it yet appeared in Sotheby's Israeli and International Art auctions in New York City and Tel Aviv. Selected exhibitions 2004: Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa 1965: Mordechai Avniel Retrospective, Haifa Municipality Museum of Modern Art, Haifa 1964: Galerie Synthèse, Paris 1962: New York University, New York 1961: Rina Gallery of Modern Art, Jerusalem 1960: Galerie Intime, Montréal 1959: Opening Show, Gallery Moos, Toronto (with Serge Poliakoff, Marc Chagall, Hans Erni and Paul-Émile Borduas) 1959: Pulitzer Art Galleries, New York 1957: Chemerinsky Gallery, Tel Aviv 1956: Museum of Modern Art, Haifa 1955: Nora Gallery, Jerusalem 1954: Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv 1954: National Museum, Washington 1953: Shore Gallery, Boston 1952: Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv 1941: Beit Pevsner, Haifa Selected collections Haifa museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum Israel Museum, Jerusalem Boston Public Library Brooklyn Museum Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge Hartford Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC New York Public Library Philadelphia Museum of Art Baltimore Museum of Art Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard), Bank Cheque. If you wish to send a personal cheque, please note that the item will not be shipped until the cheque clears. Shipping&Handling: All items are sent through registered mail or by E.M.S. Fast delivery service (up to 4-5 business days), depends on the weight and measures of the purchased item. You may add insurance for the item with an additional fee. Please e-mail us for other shipping methods. In case that the frame includes a glass, the item will be shipped without the glass in order to prevent any damage to the artwork caused by broken glass: be aware that such kind of a damage is not covered by the insurance! Terms of Auction: All sales are final, please only bid if you intend to pay. Refunds will be accepted only if the item is not as described in the auction. ISRAELI BUYERS MUST ADD 17% V.A.T. TO THE FINAL PRICE. Artshik provides full assurance that all items sold are exactly as described! We guarantee all items we sell are 100% authentic! View more great items

Price: 280 USD

Location: Tel Aviv

End Time: 2024-09-17T04:43:53.000Z

Shipping Cost: 42 USD