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Ruin (Red-Yellow)
Yitzhak Livneh
2002
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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.
Yehudah Pen painted this self-portrait shortly after opening the School of Drawing and Painting in Vitebsk. An early example of his self-portraiture, the painting is simple compared to later ones…
Among the portrait miniatures of family members that Catherine da Costa painted is this locket portrait of her son, Abraham da Costa (b. 1704), when he was ten years old.
“Alec,” she said meekly, “you’re wearing out my carpet.”
He stopped. “Pardon?”
“Why the Man of Destiny act?” she asked.
He stared at her uncomprehending.
She put her hand on his arm and shook him. “Oh…