Online auction no. 66 via bidspirit only Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 18:00
- Item number 55
- Artist's name Yechiel Shemi, 1922-2003
- Item name Composition, 1994
- Technique Oil on canvas
- Measurements 56.5X56 cm
- Signed Signed and dated.
- Estimate $1500 - 2000
- Sold for $1320
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About The Artist
sculptor and painter, born 1922, Haifa. 1945-48 Stayed in U.S.A. 1955-65 Member of New Horizons Group. Lived in Kibbutz Cabri.
Education:
1959-61 Paris, advanced studies.
Teaching:
Oranim Art Institute, Tivon
Art School, Ein Hod, sculpture, 1977-78
Technion, Haifa, Lecturer on environmental design, 1977-79
Awards and Prizes:
Dizengoff Prize,1954. 1981
Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1981.
Israel Prize, together with Batia Lishinsky, 1986.
Pundik Prize, Tel Aviv Museum, 2000
Environmental Sculptures:
Sculpture, Binyanei Hauma, Jerusalem,1958
Wall relief, Jerusalem Theatre, 1970
Nayot, Jerusalem,1982
Rupin Street, Jerusalem, 1984
Sculpture and relief, Jerusalem Theatre, 1986
Sculpture, steel, Dizengoff Street 253 Tel Aviv 1963
Raanana Sculpture Park, 1998