Lot 56: q - Moshe Propes 1922-1985 , Working in the Field oil on canvas

signed in Hebrew (lower left) oil on canvas

measurements 26 3/4 by 39 3/8 in. alternate measurements 68 by 100 cm.

Dr. L. Levi, Dvar Hashavua, July 9, 1953, illustrated

Secretariat of Kibbutz Ein Hachoresh

Painted in 1952-53.
Moshe Propes immigrated to Israel from Poland in 1925 finally settling in Kibbutz Ein Hachoresh . He studied under Streichman and Stematsky in the Studia Art School and became part of the Group of Ten, the young opposition to the New Horizons group, who pursued a figurative, local Israeli art. In his work Propes integrated subjects from the kibbutz way of life and an exceptional painterly language which became more and more abstract and geometric and in which he portrayed his figures in closed rectangular areas with strict linear design.