Moth

Asaf Ben-Zvi

1989

Painting featuring moth inside a circle at the bottom of canvas.
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Asaf Ben-Zvi

b. 1953

Israeli artist Asaf Ben-Zvi lives in Jerusalem. His work has been the subject of more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Israel. He is the recipient of the Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1989), the Israel Discount Bank Prize (1994), and the Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1997).

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