Israeli Surrealist Judaica Abstract Oil Painting Naftali Bezem Bezalel School

Dimensions: H: 146.0, W: 97.0 CM

Shabbat Evening

Large Israeli masterpiece painting. Hand signed lower right Provenance: Sara Kishon Gallery

Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם‎‎; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor. Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent under German Nazi oppression, in constant fear for the safety of his parents, who perished in the Holocaust in the Polish Auschwitz concentration camp. Naftali emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939, at the age of fourteen with a Youth Aliyah group.

From 1943 to 1946, he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon. He then spent three years studying in Paris. His most famous public works include a mural wall relief sculpture at Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust museum and commemoration in Jerusalem and the ceiling painting mural in the main reception room at the President's Residence, Jerusalem, Israel. He is also known for

his stained glass windows and Aubusson style flat weave tapestry in many public and private places around the world. In 1957, Bezem was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.

Exhibitions: General Exhibition, Art in Israel 1960 Tel Aviv Museum of Art Artists: Naftali Bezem, Nachum Gutman, Shraga Weil, Shraga, Marcel Janco, Ruth Schloss Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva with David Azuz, Nachum Gutman, Moshe Gat, Shraga Weil, Lea Nikel, Ruth Schloss, Yosl Bergner, Anna Ticho, and Menashe Kadishman. Old and New in the Museum Collection, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva Jacob El Hanani, Naftali Bezem, Yosl Bergner, Yossef Zaritsky, Yohanan Simon, Reuven Rubin,

David Rakia, Hermann Struck, Jakob Steinhardt, Boris Schatz, and others.