The Russian-born painter Avigdor Stematsky moved to Tel Aviv in 1920, beginning his formal art education at age eighteen while studying at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem. In the 1930s, Stematsky traveled to Paris, where he was profoundly influenced by the city’s avant-garde art scene. In 1948, he cofounded the Israeli painters group New Horizons, dedicated to abstract painting. While they did not endeavor to create a distinctly Israeli art, instead working within what they viewed as a universal artistic language, Stematsky and his fellow New Horizons painters became recognized as some of Israel’s most important artists.
Gurvich began increasingly to focus his work on his Jewish heritage after his first trip to Israel in 1955. His paintings depict Jewish life and culture in dreamlike imaginary worlds, in a style and…
In this cubist-influenced self-portrait, the artist has painted herself reflected in a mirror, perhaps a symbol of a divided self. The upturned vessels on the table communicate a sense of upheaval…
In the interwar period, Liebermann’s portraits were highly sought after by the wealthy. He also produced many self-portraits. This one, painted when he was in his seventies, portrays him as a self…