A Collection of Kadishman Paintings and No/Low Reserve Auction
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Dec 15, 2015
Tagore 40 st. Ramat Aviv, Israel
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LOT 19657:
Ten Decorative Hand Painted Wood Plaques by Siona Shimshi b. 1939
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Sold for: $450
Start price:
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200
Estimated price :
$1,500 - $2,000
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Ten Decorative Hand Painted Wood Plaques by Siona Shimshi b. 1939
Description
All plaques are signed (lower left)
Dimensions
Height: 110 cm, Width: 43 cm (each)
Details
The plaques all painted with geometric and floral motifs in shades of orange, black and yellow.
Condition
Good
Biography
Siona Shimshi is an Israeli painter, sculptor, ceramist, and textile designer. Siona Shimshi was born in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka (Kuklanski) and Avraham Shimshi, who had immigrated to Palestine from Lithuania in 1933. She married Jachin Hirsch, an Israeli filmmaker, in 1961. She studied at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv from 1956–59, with Avigdor Stematsky, Yehezkel Streichman, and Moshe Mokady. She also studied ceramics at Alfred University in New York, from 1959–62, as well as at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City. In 1965, she was a co-founder of a group of artists called the "10+ Group", along with artists Buky Schwartz, Raffi Lavie, and others. Shimshi was head of the Ceramic Design Department and taught as a professor at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, from 1979–87. In 1979, she designed the set for a performance of A Simple Story by Shmuel Yosef Agnon for the Habimah Theater in Tel Aviv. In 1993–94, she was the curator of an exhibition of Dora Gad, in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Among her creations are a work in wood that is exhibited in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, a wall hanging at the Tel Aviv Hilton, a 1998 sculpture for Israel's 50th anniversary that is exhibited in Holon, glass walls at Kennedy Airport in New York City, and a 2004 portrait painting of Natan Alterman that appears on the facade of Tel Aviv City Hall. Shimshi was awarded the 1988 Ariel Elchanini Prize by the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation for Arts, for her sculpture in Goren Goldstein Park in Tel Aviv. In 2005, she was voted the 197th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis
