Moshe Propes 1922-1985

Secretariat of Kibbutz Ein Hachoresh

Tel Aviv, Artist's House, Group of Ten, June-July 1953, no. 42

Ramat Gan, The Museum of Israeli Art, The Group of Ten 1951-1960, 1992, p. 86, no. 101, illustrated

Dr. L. Levi, Dvar Hashavua, July 9, 1953, illustrated

This work is relined. There is rubbing on the edges probably due to reframing of the work. There are a few areas of stabilized craquelure. There are scattered areas of retouching apparent mainly in the top right corner and upper left quarter when examined under ultra violet light. This work is varnished. Overall in good condition.
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Moshe Propes immigrated to Israel from Poland in 1925 finally settling in Kibbutz Ein Hachoresh . He studied under Streichman and Stematsky in the Studia Art School and became part of the Group of Ten, the young opposition to the New Horizons group, who pursued a figurative, local Israeli art. In his work Propes integrated subjects from the kibbutz way of life and an exceptional painterly language which became more and more abstract and geometric and in which he portrayed his figures in closed rectangular areas with strict linear design.