Crashing Waves

Year1971

Hand SignedLower Left in Paint 

Condition Excellent - Minor indention of the canvas from wooden support behind and small mark on bottom left of painting. 

Framed without GlassOrnate, Gun Metal Frame 

Purchased fromAuction House 2019 

Story / Additional InfoBeautifully framed original painting on canvas by famed Israeli artist, Menashe Kadishman. His signature is found on the bottom left-hand side of the painting. Stormy day, crashing waves, and orange skies with craggy rocks represented in this painting. Quite beautiful and exceedingly rare painting. This was likely painted around 1971 when Kadishan lived in London.Measurements: W 29" x H 25" x D 2"Condition: Excellent overall condition. The painting was professionally framed in 2019. Artist Biography: Menashe was born in Tel Aviv Israel, 1932, and passed away in May 2015. In 1965 he had his first solo exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery, which was followed by many exhibitions by public institutions worldwide. His sheep portraits soon became his artistic "trademark". 

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Menashe Kadishman - Israel

Art Brokerage: Menashe Kadushman Israeli Artist: b. 1932-2015. From 1947 to 1950, he studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem. In 1959, he moved to London, where he attended Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art. During 1959 and 1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro and Reg Butler. He remained here until 1972; he had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery. His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style, and so designed as to appear to defy gravity. This was achieved either through careful balance and construction, as in Suspense (1966), or by using glass and metal so that the metal appeared unsupported, as in Segments (1968). The glass allowed the environment to be part of the work. In his youth, between 1950 and 1953, Kadishman worked as a shepherd on Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch. This experience with nature, sheep and shepherding had a significant impact on his later artistic work and career. The first major appearance of sheep in his work was in the 1978 Venice Biennale, where Kadishman presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art. In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep (see picture on the right), by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different from the next. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic "trademark". Listings wanted.