Hanna Ben Dov, Lyrical Abstract Israeli Expressionist Oil Painting

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Hanna Ben Dov is an Israeli abstract painter who was born in Jerusalem in 1919 and died in Paris in … Read more Hanna Ben Dov is an Israeli abstract painter who was born in Jerusalem in 1919 and died in Paris in 2008.
Ben Dov's father, Yacov Ben-Dov, was a famous Israeli photographer who founded the photography department in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1910. Hannah herself attended Bezalel during the 1940s, and later continued to Camberwell College of Arts in London. After the completion of her formal education she moved to Paris, where she exhibited for the first time in 1948 and has been living and working there since, as a part of the local abstract artists school. She took part in the first French Biennale of 1951, that was held in Menton.
Collections
Her paintings can be found in several collections, including the French State Collection, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection, the Bezalel National Museum collection in Jerusalem and the Rockefeller Museum collection in New York.
Ben Dov resided for her last two years at the Maison Des Artistes Home in Nogent-Sur-Marne, France, just outside Paris.

Exhibitions
Gallery97 Tel Aviv Paintings by Hanna Ben Dov. May, 2008. Tel Aviv
French Biennale. Menton, France. 1951

Awards And Prizes
1957 First Prize, Israeli Embassy, Paris, France
1958 Foreign Painters Award, Petit Palais, Paris, France See less