Ruin (Red-Yellow)

Yitzhak Livneh

2002

Out-of-focus painting of a ruin surrounded by trees.
Please login or register for free access to Posen Library
Register
Already have an account?
Engage with this Source

Creator Bio

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.

You may also like

Banner with four arms pointed toward a crest in the center featuring a loaf of bread and English text, framed by Yiddish text and sheaves of wheat.
Tooltip info icon

Banner of the London Bakers’ Union

This banner of the London Jewish Bakers’ Union calls for (in both English and Yiddish) an eight-hour workday and an end to night work, for people to buy only bread “with the union label,” and for…
View Source
Oil lamp with cut-outs in various shapes, with row of eight cups on bottom and one cup on top.
Tooltip info icon

Brass Hanukkah Lamp from Morocco

The back of this brass Hanukkah lamp from Morocco is adorned with birds and a row of keyhole-shaped windows. The ring at top is designed to allow the lamp to be hung outside on a doorpost, a custom…
View Source
Painting depicting older man in bed as younger man kneels at bedside next to priest holding book.
Tooltip info icon

Return of the Prodigal Son

The Christian parable of the prodigal son, from Luke 15:11–12, was a favorite subject of artists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. A son squanders his inheritance and is reduced to…
View Source