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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 02.1994
The most of the picture surface is occupied by a big silhouette of a fantastic head reminding a human. It is depicted in profile, facing left. It has a big eye with three pupils representing red-lilac circles with blue points inside it. It has also an enormous jaw with yellow teeth resembling a fish,a sharp short beak and a seven-cogs crown painted by red and lilac strokes on its head. Over its shoulders the big inscription "Shamaim" is written in square Hebrew letters with lilac, blue, orange, and yellow paint The figure is outlined by black contour shaded with similar paint that inscription.
Name/Title
Shamaim (The Heavens) | Unknown
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Date
1984
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Material / Technique
crayon-strokes on unpainted yellow paper
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763 mm
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Custom
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Direction/Location
Façade (main)
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Signature
Signature in LR. Michail Grobman, in cursive Latin letters; "Shamaim". maslyanaya pastel [oil-pastel], r.76,3x57. 30 noyabrya [November]1984 g.[th], in cursive Cyrillic letters; Michail Grobman, in cursive Hebrew letters; crayon
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Summary and Remarks
The picture belongs to the group of the works executed in the style called of the artist "magic symbolism".
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Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Painted in Israel. 1988 - "Michail Grobman" exhibition, Museum Bochum, Bochum
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Bibliography
Cat.: "Michail Grobman", Bochum, 1988, no 166, n.p.
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| M.G. 8.1994
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Architectural Drawings
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