Nata Kaplan

Woman's Portrait, 1964

Item number 77
Artist's name Nata Kaplan, 1918-2005
Item name Woman's Portrait, 1964
Technique Oil on canvas
Measurements 65X41 cm
Signed Signed and dated.
Estimate $200 - 300
Sold for $36
About The Artist
Nata Kaplan was born in Alexandria Egypt in 1918 to the Levontin family. Her parents had emigrated from the Land of Israel to Egypt because of her father’s profession as a physician. In 1918 her family went back to Tel Aviv. In 1936 she went to London, England, to study secretarial skills. From 1938-1940 she lived with Gabi Bardi, her first husband, in Cyprus. In 1942 she married the engineer Gershon Dushinsky. After his death she married Dr. Kaplan. She received her education in art starting in the 1950s. Among her teachers at the Avni Institute of Art and Design were Streichman, Stematsky, and others.

Education

1955 Interior design, Parsons Academy of Design, New York
1962-63 Avni Institute, Tel, Aviv
1959-60 painting with Mina Zisselman
1958 painting with Tova Richterauch
1966 Royal Academy, London.

Awards And Prizes

1979 Paul-Louis Weiller Competition, Institut de France Academie des Beaux-Arts Paris
1992 Bronze Medal and Certificate, Institut Academique de Paris for painting "Memory"
1993 "Main d'Or" Prize
1999 Prix Louis du Moulin, Societe Internationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
2000 Gold Medal, Federation Nationale de la Culture Francaise