Efraim ModzelevichIsraeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Jerusalem Kotel Oil Painting Judaica

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Efraim Modzelevich (1931-1995) Work is abstract in subject, and expressive in terms of technique. The artist uses a muted color … Read more Efraim Modzelevich (1931-1995) Work is abstract in subject, and expressive in terms of technique. The artist uses a muted color palette, and thick layers of paint to build up his composition.

Title: Homage In brown to Hans Hoffman, It appears to be an abstract rendition of the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City. Signed lower left.

Born in 1931, in Buenos Aires, Argentina Modzelevich began painting in childhood. He achieved a distinguished style and reputation which brought him a one-man show in Tel Aviv at the age of 25, and many exhibitions thereafter in Israel, New York, and Paris. He also participated in group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, and in 1958 won the Milo Artists’ Club prize in Tel Aviv. He is represented in museums and collections in Israel, America, England and France. Like so many Israeli artists, Modzelevich was born elsewhere—in Argentina, to Polish parents—but was brought to Palestine in 1939 at the age of 8. His paintings reflect both strength and delicacy, suggesting reality while bordering on abstraction. He died in 1995. Latin American Jewish artist.
Studies: 1950-51 with A. Yaskil and Meir Ravitz, Haifa; 1959-60 advanced studies, Paris.
Selected Exhibitions: 10th Anniversary Exhibitions in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; 1962 Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum.
From 1964 had independent studio, "Kedem", Old Jaffa.
Many of his paintings have been acquired by museums in Israel and abroad as well as by art collectors in the U.S.A, England, France and Israel.
Ephraim Modzelevich was a highly gifted colorist with well developed sense of composition. He used abstract means of expression but he did not cut himself off from the appearance of things as they are in nature. He has found the golden mean between reality and abstraction.

He was included in the seminal exhibition Ofakim Hadashim at the Haifa Museum of Art in 1957
Artists: Dov Feigin, Yosef Zaritsky, Ephraim Modzelevich, Yehiel Shemi, Marcel Janco, Kosso Eloul, Kosso, Yitzhak Danziger, Itzhak, Moshe Sternschuss, Yehezkel Streichman, Israel Pald Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1958 , Artists: Aharon Avni, Pinchas Abramovich, Arieh Allweil, Sorel Etrog, Yosl Bergner, Nachum Gutman, Michael Gross, Shraga Weil, Moshe Mokady, Avigdor Stematsky, Avigdor Abel Pann, Moshe Castel, Reuven Rubin Ruth Schloss, Bezalel Schatz, (Lilik) See less