Ruin (Red-Yellow)

Yitzhak Livneh

2002

Out-of-focus painting of a ruin surrounded by trees.
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Yitzhak Livneh

b. 1952

The work of Israeli artist Yitzhak Livneh has been featured at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and at many group shows, including Contemporary Israeli Art, in Sienna (2000). He is a recipient of the Pundak Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2002), and the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Education prize (2005). Livneh teaches at the Bezalel Museum of Art and Design.

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