Michael Gross

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Michael Gross, 1993, no. 256, p. 65, illustrated in color in the exhibition catalogue
Ashdod, Ashdod Art Museum, The Birth of Now Art in Israel in the 1960s, 2008, no. 22, p. 29, illustrated in color in the exhibition catalogue

Overall in very good condition. Original canvas. No retouching is apparent when viewed under ultra violet light.
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Gross's affinity with the works of the American painter Barnet Newman is especially apparent in the present lot, in which his abstract paintings of landscapes are depicted with a heightened sensitivity. Mordechai Omer discuses Michael Gross's landscapes and notes that "Even when the human figure is absent and the painting is entirely devoted to landscape, the human-experiential aspect is present in it in all its intensity, for throughout his artistic career Gross remains committed to transmitting his most personal sensations in the presence of landscape, to making heard the human hue of the sounds of the landscape registered by his attentive ear: 'One can say that my greatest teacher is nature - the clear expanses of fields and sky, the light of the sun that washes and strikes with an exposing intensity; in the meetings of the large masses of field and sky, of mountain and sky, a confrontation of the forces in the universe is created. These confrontations of forces between different essences - between  material-real and trembling-transparent - designate moments that are emotional or spiritual." (Mordechai Omer, Michael Gross, exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 1993, p. 35).