Michael Gross: Self-portrait 1970s/Israeli Jewish Modern Contemporary Minimalism

Description: Michael Gross 1920 - 2004, Israel Self-portrait, 1970s Original Hand-Signed Pencil Drawing - circa the 1970s Artist Name: Michael Gross Title: Self-portrait Signature Description: Hand-signed in Hebrew lower right Technique: Pencil on paper Size: 35 x 28 cm / 13.78" x 11.02" inch Frame: Unframed Condition: Good condition with no tears, rips, holes, repairs, wear, paint peelings or losses, Some minor wrinkles on the margins consistent with the age and use. Artist's Biography: Michael Gross, Israeli painter and sculptor, 1920-2004 Michael Gross was born in Tiberias and grew up in the nearby farming village of Migdal. In 1939, when Gross was living in Jerusalem, his father was murdered by the Arabs and the family home was destroyed. This event influenced Gross's artistic choices. Gross's early paintings and sculptures were primarily figurative, using a model. He was influenced by Zeev Ben Zvi and Moshe Ziffer, with whom he studied during this period. In 1954, when he returned to Israel after studying sculpture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Gross's style moved toward simplification of nature and layers of color. In the 1960s and 1970s, influenced by American art, Gross's work became increasingly abstract and "minimalist," but continued to address figurative themes and the landscapes of his past, exploring contrasts between colors and textures. Michael Gross was awarded the Israel prize for painting and sculpture in 2000. Gross died on November 4, 2004. Education 1936-1940 Teachers Seminary, Jerusalem 1943-1945 Architecture, Technion, Haifa and sculpture with Moshe Ziffer 1951-54 Ecole nationale superiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris and sculpture with Marcel Gimond Teaching 1954-1956 Beit Hinuch High School, Haifa 1957-1960 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem 1960-1980 Oranim Art Institute, Kiryat Tivon Awards 1953 Score de respect, Deauville International Exhibition, France 1964 Herman Struck Prize, Haifa Municipality 1967 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, The first year that the prize has been awarded was 1936. Only artists who were members of the Association were eligible to receive it. The purpose of this prize was to 1971 Prize, Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil, Gold medal 1977 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1987 Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Ministry of Education and Culture 1995 Gamzu Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2000 Israel Prize for Painting and Sculpture Selected outdoor and public art 1974 Kiryat Hayovel (Simon Bolivar Park), Jerusalem 1980 Kibbutz Messilot 1982 To the victims of the sea, 1969, Tel-Aviv University 1985 Tel Aviv University 1996 "Trio"- square of Tel Aviv Museum of Art Solo Exhibitions 1977 Michael Gross: Outdoor and Indoor Works 1976-1977, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1978 Paintings and sculptures, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1980 Encounters with Jerusalem, 1968–1980, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod 1993 Michael Gross, Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1995 Michael Gross - Meeting Part 2, Works 1975-1995, , Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv Michael Gross - Works on Paper, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv 1997, 1998, 2000 New Works, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv 2002 Michael Gross: Recent Works, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Michael Gross: Prints and a Series of Paintings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv 2005 Memorial show that marks a year to the artist's passing, Dvir Gallery 2005 Drawings, Museum of Art, Ein Harod 2007 The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan 2009 Selected works from the 1970s – 2001, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv His artworks are included in the collections of the Israeli museums and in museums abroad as well as in private collections. Selected group exhibitions 1952, “Le Salon de la Jeune Peinture” (Paris), Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, Galerie Charpentie, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel Museum, Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Ein Harod Museum, as well as the Art Biennials in Venice, Florence, Rijeka (Yugoslavia) and Sao Paulo. 2017 Group Exhibition, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv Nowwhere, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv 2015 Israeli Art: The Renewed Collection Galleries, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1965 Today, Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Museum Presents Itself 2, Israeli Art from the Museum Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2014 Lyrical? - Not Necessarily: Israeli Abstract Art in the Dubi Shiloah Collection, Open University Gallery, Ra’anana Les yeux seuls sont encore capables de pousser un cri, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv 2013 Group Exhibition September 2013, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv Back to Nature, Landscapes Drawn by Masters, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Makhno's Boys, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv 2011 THE MUSEUM PRESENTS ITSELF: Israeli Art from the Museum Collection, Tel Aviv Art Museum A Personal View, Haifa Museum of Art 2010 Permanent Exhibition: Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2009 Family Traces, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2008 Decathlon: Six decades of Art In Israel from The Givon Gallery Collection, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod My Own Body: Art in Israel, 1968 – 1978, Tel Aviv Art Museum The Birth of Now - The Second Decade, 1958-1968, Ashdod Art Museum 2007 Site-Seeing, University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanities, The Art Gallery On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop Highlights of the Israeli Art Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2004 Still Landscape - New – Old, Haifa Museum of art Point of View - Works from the Museum Collection and Loans, Tel Aviv Art Museum 2003 30 Outdoor Sculptures - Tel Aviv University Campus, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery Retrospective View, Jerusalem Print Workshop 2002 Views - Israeli Art from the Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Focus on Painting, Haifa Museum of Art 2001 localities.il - Israeli Art from the Collection and Elsewhere, Israel Museum Love at First Sight: The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1999 Summer Harvest - Israeli Art from the Israel Museum Collection and Elsewhere, Israel Museum, Jerusalem National Home to Dream House, Israel 1948-1998, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1998 Vision of Light: A Century of Watercolor in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem To the East - Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Boundaries of Language, Perspectives on Israeli Art of the Seventies, Tel Aviv Art Museum Tribute to MABAT, Mabat Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1997 A Tribute to Bertha Urdang on her 85th Birthday, Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem 1996 So Near, So Far, Municipal Art Gallery, Smilansky Cultural Center, Rehovot Portraits, Tel Aviv Art Museum Jerusalem in Israeli Art, from the Museum's Collection, Israel Museum 1995 Yossi Breger, Michael Gross, Henry Shelesnyak, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv Israel Art: From the Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Portrait of a Woman - The Museum's Collection, Haifa Museum of Art 1994 Art Focus - The Metamorphosis of ''Ready Made'', Tel Hai Arts Institute Gallery, Tel Hai Israeli Art: Emphasis, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1993 On the shore of sea of Galilee, Beit Gabriel, Zemah Before the Gold – Jerusalem, The Korin Maman Ashdod Museum Arte Contemporaneo Israeli, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires 1992 The Israeli Artists of Documenta IX, University of Haifa Art Gallery Group Exhibition, Bertha Urdang Gallery, NY, USA 1991 Israeli Contemporary Sculpture: Place & Mainstream, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma Prefecture, Japan 1991 Place & Mainstream, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan Back to Painting in Israeli Prints, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery 1990 Arte Contemporaaneo Israeli, Pinturas, Colecction Joseph Hackmey, Museo Macional De Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile 1989 40 From Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing, Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam 1988 40 From Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing, Brooklyn Museum, NY Modern Drawing - New Approaches, Haifa Museum of Modern Art 1987 Emphasis: Arieh Aroch, Michael Gross, Igael Tumarkin,, Israel Museum 1986 The Hot and the Cool in Israel Art, Haifa Museum of Modern Art The Want of Matter: A Quality in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1985 Milestones in Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Two Years: Israeli Art, Qualities Accumulated II (Three-Dimensions), Tel Aviv Art Museum The First Biennial of Sculpture, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan 1984 Two Years: Israeli Art, Qualities Accumulated II (Two-Dimensions), Tel Aviv Art Museum 80 Years of Sculpture in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Dynamic Visions, Contemporary Art from Israel, The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, USA 1983 The Negev in Israeli Art, Avraham Baron Gallery, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 1982 Artists' Tribute to Bertha Urdang, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Trends in Isreali Art 1970-1980, International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland 1980 Lines into Drawings, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1979 The Kadishman Connection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1978 Sculptures in the Museum Square, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1975 Three Israeli Artists: Gross, Neustein, Kupferman, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA Group Exhibition - First and Contemporary, Artist Pavillion, Tel-Aviv Michael Gross, Bertha Urdang Gallery, NY, USA 1974 Aclim (Climate), Artists' House, Jerusalem + Museum for Modern Art 1972 From Landscape to Abstraction, From Abstraction to Nature, Israel Museum Old and New in the Museum Collection, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva 1971 Israeli Exhibition, São Paulo Art Biennial, San Paolo, Brazil Multi-ism 2, Museum for Modern Art, Haifa Looking Up..., Painting, Graphics & Sculpture, Memorial Art Gallery of The University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA 1969 A Leap of Faith, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures from Israel, State University of NY, Albany, New York, USA Art Festival, Painting & Sculpture in Israel, The Exhibition Grounds, Tel Aviv Israel on Paper, San Francisco Museum of Art,California, USA 1967 General Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Art Museum Jerusalem Seen by Israeli Artists, Israel Museum, Jerusalem The First Exhibition of Israeli Graphic-Art, Museum for Modern Art, Haifa + Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva 1966 The Autumn Exhibition - Israeli Artists, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion 1964 Autumn Exhibition, Rina Gallery, Jerusalem 1960 / 1962 / 1963 / 1965 Central Exhibition, Art in Isreal, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1960 Group Exhibition, The Israeli Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy 1959 General Exhibition, On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the City of Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum 1958 12 Artists, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem Ten Years [of] Israeli Painting, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1956 / 1957 Annual Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1956 Israeli Landscape, Haifa Museum of Modern Art Michael Gross (born 1920, died 4 November 2004) was an Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual artist. Michael Gross was born in Tiberias in the British-administered Palestine in 1920. He grew up in the farming village of Migdal. In 1939-1940, he left to study at the Teachers’ Training College in Jerusalem. In 1939, while he was away, his father was murdered by Arabs, and the family farm and home were destroyed. This event impacted on his work as an artist. From 1943 to 1945, he studied architecture at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. From 1951 to 1954, he studied art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to Israel in 1954 and settled in the artists’ village of Ein Hod. Artistic style Gross's works are imbued with the light and spirit. They are minimalist, but never pure abstraction, always tied to natural form and laden with feeling. In his early paintings, Gross simplified form in order to concentrate on proportion, broad areas of color, and the size and placement of each element. This reductive process was also notable in his sculptures, whether in painted iron or other materials such as white concrete. In later paintings, he often juxtaposed large off-white panels with patches of tone, adding textured materials such as wooden beams, burlap and rope. Gross’s rough, freely-brushed surfaces, along with the use of soft pastel coloring, conjure up images of the Israeli landscape Additional Information: Painter and Sculptor Michael Gross, Dies Aged 84 Haaretz, Nov 4, 2004 Israel Prize laureate, painter and sculptor Michael Gross, died Wednesday, aged 84. Gross, a sixth generation Israeli, was born in Tiberias in 1920 and grew up in the community of Migdal on the Sea of Galilee. Gross was considered a minimalist and was interested in the pure elements of plastic art, and managed to express a complex array of emotions using shapes and colors. He studies sculpture with artist Moshe Zipper and studies architecture at the Technion - the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. He studied sculpture and painting at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris between 1950 and 1954. Gross' art was preoccupied with a limited number of subjects, including portraits, characters, landscapes and the home. He explored the contrasts between reality and dream, between man and the environment, between color and texture of various materials and between the figurative and the abstract. When Gross was awarded the Israel Prize he said "I'm glad art that is very Israeli is very contemporary and is not faddish, is recognized. And indeed, despite his importance in the local art scene and the fact that he showed a lot overseas, Gross never had clear followers among Israeli artists. "It can be said that Michael was always an outsider. He was never a member of the central clique," his wife said when he was awarded the prize. His work, nevertheless, is shown in museums and collections worldwide, including the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He remains one of the most important and valued Israeli artists. Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Card (Visa, Master Card), Bank Cheque. If you wish to send a personal cheque, please note that the item will not be shipped until the cheque clears. Shipping&Handling: All items are sent through registered mail or by E.M.S. Fast delivery service (up to 4-5 business days), depends on the weight and measures of the purchased item. You may add insurance for the item with an additional fee. Please e-mail us for other shipping methods. In case that the frame includes a glass, the item will be shipped without the glass in order to prevent any damage to the artwork caused by broken glass: be aware that such kind of a damage is not covered by the insurance! Terms of Auction: All sales are final, please only bid if you intend to pay. 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