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Technique: Indian Ink and oil pastels on paper
Size: 17X25 cm
Signature: Unsigned (COA will be provided by Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv). Provenance: the artist's estate
Condition: Very good

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Avigdor Steimatzky was a leading abstract painter in Israel, and among the founders of the New Horizons artistic movement.
Born in 1908, Odessa, Ukraine.
Died in 1989, Tel Aviv, Israel. 

Steimatzky based his works on reality and often drew landscapes in abstraction. He adheres to Kandinsky's criterion as a basis for abstraction, which is: "The form must grow out of its inner need." The intention, of course, is both the form and the color content. The shapes, stains and scribbles of Sitematzky undoubtedly grow from his inner need. Steimatzky does not have a painting without scribbles that are his calligraphic signs of identity, and if in almost every drawing there are free corners of color or cream and white spots, it again attests to his character that tends to understate, not to exaggerate, to lyrical and not to prosaic or heroic.

Steimatzky's works have been exhibited in all Israeli museums and many galleries. Retrospective exhibitions of his work were held in 1973 and 1981 by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. In 1993, a retrospective exhibition was held in his memory at the Tel Aviv Museum and in 2008, the Tel Aviv Museum presented an extensive exhibition of his later works.

Steimatzky was the recipient of many awards: the Disengoff Prize (1941, 1946), the Ramat Gan Prize (1957), the Milo Club Prize (1965), the Jerusalem Prize (1967), the Sherman Prize (1972) and the Sandberg Prize (1976).