Itamar Siani, Rare Jewish Yemenite Woman Oil Painting Israeli Girl Judaica Itamar Siani, 1979

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Itamar Siani, Yemenite Israeli (Born 1941) Oil on Canvas "Portrait of a Seated Woman" Hand signed lower left Dimensions: 26.25" … Read more Itamar Siani, Yemenite Israeli (Born 1941) Oil on Canvas "Portrait of a Seated Woman" Hand signed lower left Dimensions: 26.25" x 17.75". Frame measures 38.25" x 30" Itamar Siani, Israeli artist, painter, engraver, born 1941, Yemen His art commemorates the unique cultural heritage and traditions of the Yemenite Jewish community, who returned to the Promised Land on "Eagles' Wings," the code name of the Israeli rescue of Yemenite Jewry in 1949. Among his notable works is a ten-meter long oil painting depicting the immigration of the Yemenite Jews, which he worked on for 30 years.He did a celebrated series titled "The Magic Carpet" etchings depicting stages in the artist’s life including: Liberation, The Magic Carpet, Refugees, New life in Israel, Family, Mount Sinai. published in Jerusalem 1973. The artist was born in Sana’a in Yemen and flown to Israel aged 5 years old as part of operation ‘Magic Carpet’ the mass migration that transported almost the entire Jewish population of this part of the Arabian peninsula to the new State. The etchings continue and develop a long tradition of Yemenite artistry. Yemenite born Israeli painters Avshalom Okashi, Dov Boussani, Matti Bassis, Yosef Halevi, Raphael Vakhash, Mikhael Khashbi, Itamar Siani, Avraham Atsmon, David Tamari, Benyamin Levy, Chaim Twili. Itamar Siani was born in Sana'a, Yemen. He immigrated to Israel in 1949 with his mother and three brothers. He lived and studied at Meir Shfeya Youth Village near Zichron Yaakov, where the teachers recognized his artistic talent. In 1968, he was admitted to Goldsmiths College of Art in London on a scholarship from Lady Edith Wolfson. In 1970, Siani was chosen to represent Israel in an exhibit of Israeli art at Museum Merida in Spain. Education 1956 studied art with Marcel Janco, Zvi Mairovich, Yaacov Agam, Yohanan Simon, Prof. Josef Schwarzman, and Moshe Mokadi 1968-1975 Goldsmiths College of Art, University of London, London, England Teaching Painting, at his studio at Meir Shfeya Youth Village Awards And Prizes 1963-64, Scholarship from Aliyat Hanoar Exhibits include the Tribute to Collector Arie Dobron, Paintings, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Artists: Shmuel Bonneh, Samuel Tepler, Alexander Bogen, Esther Peretz Arad, Yosl Bergner, Itamar Siani, Naftali Bezem, Audrey Bergner, Ivan Schwebel. Exhibition of Paintings The Municipal Museum - Beit-Emanuel, Ramat Gan Artists: Pinchas Abramovich, Lea Avisedek, Albert Goldman, Shaul Ohaly, Robert Baser, Claire Szilard, Itamar Siani, Oded Feingersh, Ludwig Schwerin. He has shown with Fima Efraim Roitenberg, Haim Kiewe, Shmuel Tepler, Liliane Klapisch, Aharon Giladi, Amnon David Ar, Leopold Krakauer, Benny Efrat, Zvi Shor, Regie Reginald Sidney Weston, Larry Abramson, Israel Hershberg, Moshe Tamir, Aviva Uri, Raffi Lavie, Avraham Naton, Arieh (Leo) Lubin, Jean David, Amos Yaskil, Shalom (Der Zeegermacher) Moskowitz, Pinchas Cohen-Gan, Moshe Kupferman, Nahum Gutman, David Hendler. EXHIBITIONS: 1992 Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York The Carbon Series 1995 Wynn Kramarsky, New York, Magnetic Drawings curator Wendy Shafir Venice Biennale Israeli Pavilion, The Possessed Library (David Koresh) an installation 1996 SECCA Winston Salem, North Carolina, Light on the Ashes -an installation 1997 Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw Poland, Polish Forests and Other Drawings 1998 Rose Art Museum, Waltham Ma. Polish Forests, Magnetic Fields, Carbon Copies, 1999 Cleveland Center of Fine Arts Beauty and Destiny: River of Ashes curator, Jill Snyder 2000 Herzliya Museum Israel Ash City 2 texts Arthur Danto, text Kristine Styles, Hilary Putnam SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND REVIEWS: 1981 Sidney Janis Gallery, N.Y. New Directions: Torn Paper Works, Princeton, N.J. Feb. 12-Mar. 7, Bertha Urdang gallery. Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or Mizrahi jews, Sefardim are a Jewish oriental ethnic division originating from traditionally established communities in the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal). The term "Sephardim" also sometimes refers to Mizrahi Jews (Eastern Jewish communities) of Western Asia and North Africa. Largely expelled from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century, they carried a distinctive Jewish diasporic identity with them to North Africa, including modern day Morocco, Algeria, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt; South-Eastern and Southern Europe, including France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia; Western Asia, including Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran; as well as the Americas (although in smaller numbers compared to the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora); and all other places of their exiled settlement. They sometimes settled near existing Jewish communities, such as the one from former Kurdistan, or were the first in new frontiers, with their furthest reach via the Silk Road. See less