Ori Reisman

Gifted by the artist to the former owners

The canvas is unlined and somewhat rough in texture. It is also somewhat slack in the frame. There is a small patch near the lower left edge (as you look at the reverse) that corresponds to a disturbance in the paint in the lower right corner of the picture surface. This area flourescces under UV light. There are no other inpaints apparent under UV.
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Born in Tel Yosef, Israel in 1924, Reisman lived most his life in Kibbutz Kabri in the Western Galilee. In 1951 he moved to Paris where he studied under Jean Souverbie at the École National des Beaux-Arts.

Reisman's depiction of a simple house in Acre painted against a bright blue sky adheres to Souverbie's teachings and emphasizes the structure, lines and surface of the painting with uniform color surfaces. "Reisman associated certain aspects in his work with Souverbie's perception of painting and with his studies in Paris, a formative period in his oeuvre that left its mark on his worldview and on his paintings.... Jean Souverbie rejected the tendencies of abstraction, subjectivity, and expressionist distortion represented, to his mind, by artists of the School of Paris. He spoke of a 'rooted' painting and aspired for a structure based on regularity, for coloration that serves the structure, for color laying that 'blocks the canvas' and is executed with a spatula rather than a brush... Upon his return to Israel, Reisman engaged for a while in monochromatic landscape painting after Souverbie, and explored the fundamental interrelations between surfaces in the landscape' (Galia Bar Or, "Don't Tickle the Canvas: On Ori Reisman and Jean Souverbie", Ori Reisman, exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2004, pp. 289-290).