Menashe Kadishman

Born in Tel Aviv in 1932, Kadishman studied with leading Israeli sculptors Moshe Sternschuss and Rudi Lehmann during the early 50's. From 1959-1960 Kadishman studied at St. Martin's School in London where he encountered minimalist sculpture. Studying with Anthony Caro, Kadishman became an internationally recognized minimal and neo-constructivist sculptor. He represented Israel at the Venice Biennale of 1978.

From the early 1970s the tree became a central motif in Kadishman's work. As Kadishman indicated "There is both an affinity and a certain equality between us: the tree is the Man of the silent world; our language is filled with trees: the tree of the field is man's life, the bramble allegory, the trees die standing, the cedars of Lebanon."

The present work was commissioned from the artist by Philip Berman for their home in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2006 and then placed in the Dubnov Garden in Tel Aviv. 

There are two versions of this work; the second is installed at the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, N.Y.

Philip and Muriel Berman built one of the country's most outstanding collections of large scale modern sculpture. Along with works by Moore, Miro, Archipenko, Hepworth and Bertoia the Bermans collected sculptures by Kadishman, Agam, Schwartz and other Israeli artists. Proceeds will benefit the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation which will further the philanthropic endeavours the Bermans supported passionately in their lifetime through its support of the arts, culture, higher education and medicine in America and Israel.

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