The Choice of Paris

Elie Shamir

1988

Painting depicting three women seated with buildings and hills behind them, above small set of images including cows and two suns on either side of an eye on left, a woman in triangle surrounded by snakes in center, and a building ruin with owl on right.
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Elie Shamir

b. 1953

Israeli painter and sculptor Elie Shamir studied and later taught at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and at the College of Visual Art in Beersheva. Among the awards he has received are the America-Israel Prize for Culture (1979) and the Israel Education Ministry Prize (2005).

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