Painting depicts a bustling neighborhood in the old city of Jerusalem.
Watercolor on paper. Framed.
Signed bottom right
Excellent condition
13cm x 20cm.(without frame)
Zvi Raphaeli (1924- 2005)- was an Israeli impressionist painter. A Rabbi and an artist, he successfully merged two divergent careers together into a blend of beauty and harmony. Zvi Raphaeli was born in Egypt, moved to Paris, France at early age, where later he could study art at the famous Ecole des Beaux Arts. During the dark years of World War II he studied art at the famous Ecole des Beaux Arts under the direction and guidance of Jean Souverbie. While a student there, he was also a "Maquizard", a member of the FFI, the underground resistance movement in occupied France. In 1945, after WWII, he moved to Jerusalem, Israel. He studied In the Bezalel Museum, under the famous Israeli artist, Jacob Steinhardt, Raphaeli once again took brush in hand to transmit to works of art his emotions and feeling in the new land-the Holy Land. Most of his paintings, oil or water, describe market places, old streets of Jerusalem and Zefat. He also loved the landscaping scenes when he painted flowers or olive trees. All his paintings, whatever the subject, are infused with delight, affection and poetry.
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