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Tiberias by Nachum Gutman

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Tiberias by Nachum Gutman
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Description
Tiberias, signed (lower right)

Technique
Watercolor on paper

Dimensions
38 x 51 cm

Provenance
Estate of Shmuel Sami Harman, former Israeli Consul in Brussels and Istanbul.

Condition
Minor foxing on the edges, otherwise good.

Biography
Nachum Gutman, Painter. b. 1898, Romania. Immigrated 1905. Served in Jewish Legion in World War I. Studies: Herzlia Gymnasium, Tel Aviv; 1913-1918 Bezalel, Jerusalem. 1926 Participated in famous Tower of David Exhibition. Prize: 1978 Israel Prize for Children's Literature. Wrote and illustrated books and well-known children's books. Famous as "the artist of early Tel Aviv". 1976 Made a Worthy of Tel Aviv. Died 1980.