circa the 1960s

Provenance: the artists estate

Artist Name: Michael Gross

Title: Self-portrait

Signature Description: Hand-signed in Hebrewlower right

Technique:Pencil on paper

Size:35 x28 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 consistent with the age and use..

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
1980Kibbutz Messilot
1982 To the victims of the sea, 1969,Tel-Aviv University
1985Tel AvivUniversity
1996 "Trio"- square ofTel 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 artists 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
Makhnos 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 Museums 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 Museums 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 anIsraelipainter, sculptor andconceptual artist.

Michael Gross was born inTiberiasin theBritish-administered Palestinein 1920. He grew up in the farming village ofMigdal. In 1939-1940, he left to study at the Teachers’ Training College inJerusalem. 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 atTechnion – Israel Institute of TechnologyinHaifa. From 1951 to 1954, he studied art at theÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-ArtsinParis. He returned to Israel in 1954 and settled in the artists’ village ofEin Hod.

Artistic style
Grosss 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 "Im 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.

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