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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2011 Apr 14 @ 16:00UTC+2
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Description
Tower of Babel, signed (lower right)
Technique
Ink and wash on paper
Date Created
Circa 1920
Dimensions
18 x 11 cm
Condition
Good
Biography
Kibel, Wolf (1903–1938), painter. Son of a cantor of Godzisk near Warsaw, Kibel was orphaned in boyhood. At age twenty, Kibel left Poland and emigrated to Austria. Once in Vienna, Kibel was exposed to the Impressionists and the Cubists. After relocating once again, this time to Tel Aviv, the artist discovered Matisse, whose style for some time would influence him greatly. After marrying Freda Kibel, the artist moved to Cape Town, South Africa. There the strength and individuality of his style and his artistic integrity received quick recognition from fellow artists. Kibel's first exhibition took place in Cape Town in 1931. His media expanded from charcoal to oil paint, watercolor, etching, and pastel and his work achieved a high sense of organization, often using distortion to bring out the personality of the sitter. He created compositions dominated by triangles, rectangles, and curvilinear forms. Tinged with the melancholy of his own suffering and the tragedy of his people, Kibel's work was also marked by a sensitive humanity and joy in the common things of life. His life was a constant struggle against poverty and ill health, and he died in Cape Town of tuberculosis brought on by years of malnutrition.
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40 Tagor Street, Tel Aviv, 69203, Israel
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