Yehezkiel Streichman

Original canvas. Overall in very good condition. No retouching is apparent when viewed under ultra violet light.
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Born in 1906 in Kovno, Lithuania, Streichman came to Palestine in 1924 where he studied at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. In 1948 he was one of the founding members of the Israeli avant-garde movement, New Horizons, and in 1969 a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Streichman was the recipient of the 1990 Israel Prize.

Yigal Zalmona discusses an affinity between Streichman and the French painter Pierre Bonnard and notes that "The two share a preference for intimate subjects, an introspective mood, and portraits of women. both often deal with the division between interior and exterior (the window motif) as an expression of the psychological polarization between the inner world and external reality. Both tend toward the depiction of an Arcadian world, bathed in Meditteranean lyricism and pastoral order... Both artists' works exude sexuality, joie de vivre, and a pleasure in beauty and ornamentation... There is also a resemblance between the light emanating from their paintings - a soft, opalesque, filtered light which suffuses the form and sometimes creates the illusion of looking at them through a veil." (Yigal Zalmona, Yehezkel Streichman, exhibition catalogue, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987, n.n.)