Dov Feigin
- Item number 2
- Artist's name Dov Feigin, 1907-2000
- Item name Encounter, 1958
- Technique Bronze
- Estimate $800 - 1200
- Sold for $3360
- Remarks h: 47 cm.
- Literature Dov Feigin, edited by Irit Hadar, Tel Aviv Museum, 2005, p. 71.
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Provenance
Private collection.
Old Jaffa Gallery. -
About The Artist
Sculptor. b. 1907, Russia. Immigrated 1927. Studies: 1933 Paris. Teaching: Avni Institute, Tel Aviv. Prizes: 1945-46 Dizengoff Prize; 1953 Haifa Municipality Prize; 1985 Sandberg Prize, Israel Museum. On his immigration joined Kvutza of Hashomer Hatzair and later was a founder of Kibbutz Afikim. 1937 A founder of New Horizons Group. 1962 Participated in Venice Biennale. Executed many memorials and environmental sculptures all over Israel, including: Memorial to Fallen of War of Independence, Rehovot; stone sculpture at Kennedy Memorial; ?Ladders? (executed in 1957), gift of the sculptor to Tel Aviv University in 1994. Died September 2000.
Awards and Prizes
1938 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv Jaffa, Tel Aviv