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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 02.1994
A picture represents a schematic landscape with flying fantastic human figure. The lower part of the composition is occupied by the picture of the earth with four schematic trees and house. Two small trees reminding a flame of a candles are depicted in the left part of the composition, and one similar is set in its right part. A big tree with four straight branches ending with the same flame-leafs is placed here, too. In the center of this lower part a small house resembling a child-drawing is depicted.All this subjects are executed by monochromatic monotype. In the left upper part of the picture a dark flying human figure with two extends white wings is depicted on face, in full length, against a background of yellow sky. The figure has a grotesque human face and white four-cogs crown with white veil on its head.
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At the edge of the world | Unknown
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Date
1963
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Coloured oil-pastel spots over monochrome print
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Height
490mm (overall); 420mm (picture)
Length
610mm (overall); 530mm (picture)
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Subject
T | Tree
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Extant
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0
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Custom
Contents
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Ruling
Pricking
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Hebrew Numeration
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Direction/Location
Façade (main)
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Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
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Temp: Architecture Axis
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Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Signature
Signature in LC. Grobman,1963 god [year], in square Cyrillic letters, print
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Summary and Remarks
The picture belongs to the group of the works executed in the style called of the artist and art-critics "magic symbolism".
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Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Executed in USSR. 1971 - brought of the artist to Israel. Exhibited: 1971-1972 - "Michail Grobman" exhibition, Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv; 1988 - 'Michail Grobman" exh., Museum Bochum, Bochum
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Bibliography
Cat.: "Michail Grobman", Tel-Aviv, 1971 no 48,n.p.; "Michail Grobman", Bocum, 1988, no 16, n.p.
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| M.G. 11.1994
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Architectural Drawings
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Computer Reconstruction
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