Modernist Picnic Olive Trees Israel Landscape Oil Painting Zvi Livni Israeli Art

Dimensions: H: 25.5, W: 31.5 IN

Zvi Livni (1906-1987) Picnic Oil on canvas Hand signed lower left Dimensions: 18" x 22" & Framed: 25" x 29"

I am not sure if this depicts Jewish farmers or Arab Bedouin pickers having a picnic.

Zvi Livni was born in the town of Lodz in Poland, and commenced his artistic education at the Art Academy in Warsaw. He came to Israel (British mandate Palestine) as a young man. Here he lived for many years in a kibbutz and was one of the founders of the artist group of the Kibbutz Artzi. He left Israel on several occasions in order to continue his studies and spent much time in the 1930's in Germany, France and Italy. Worked in lithograph

and silkscreen printing as well as Judaica oil painting. Paintings at: President's Residence, Jerusalem, Museum of Art, Toronto, Boston University Museum. A founder of the Artists' Quarter, Safed. From 1953 lived in Safed. He was among the founders of the famous Israeli Artists' Colony in Safed, where he lives and works most of the year and where he exhibits at a permanent one-man show. He has also achieved a reputation as illustrator of various books and illuminator of Passover Haggadot. His paintings are to be found in many museums and well-known private collections in Israel, U.S.A., Canada and Europe, including the Residence of the President of the State of Israel, Jerusalem; the Museum of Art in Toronto, Canada; the Museum of Modern Art, Brandeis University, Boston; the Museum of Art, Yale University, New Haven; the Brooklyn Museum, New York. He was included in the show Art in Israel Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1951 Artists: Mordechai Avniel, Aviva Uri, Jakob Eisenscher, Genia Berger, Nachum Gutman, Shraga Weil, Samuel Zulkis, Marcel Janco, Shmuel Katz, Mordechai Levanon, Tzvi Livni, Zvi Mairovich, Moshe Mokady, Menashe Kadishman, Agam, Yohanan Simon, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel, Reuven Rubin, Arieh Allweil, David Palombo, Yehiel Shemi, Aharon Avni, Yehiel Krize.