Israel ORIGINAL DRAWING Signed OIL PASTEL PAINTING Jewish BATIA LISHANSKY Woman

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Up for auction is an ORIGINAL hand SIGNED Israeli DRAWING - PAINTING ,  PANDA - OIL PASTEL on paper by the acclaimed ISRAELI female SCULPTOR of Russian-Ukrainian descent BATIA LISHANSKY  (
also Batya, Batyah; Lichanski, Lishanski,
) who is familliar more with her famous sculptures. LISHANSKY has drawn with a very light hand a MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT of a young girl. The DRAWING - PAINTING is full of atmosphere and expression inspite its simplicity.
Size is around 18
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x 12 "
.Very good condition.  What looks like staining at the top of the piece is only a slightly darkened color of the paper.
( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images )
. The piece will be sent in a special protective rigid sealed packaging.
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Batia Lishansky, also Batya, Batyah; Lichanski, Lishanski, (1900–1992) was a Ukrainian-born pioneering Israeli sculptor. Working with stone, wood and bronze, she created portraits and memorials commemorating the people and events of the early years of the State of Israel. Her many busts portray cultural and political figures as well as members of her family while her monumental memorials are dedicated to those who were killed in the War of Independence. Many of her works can be seen in the permanent exhibition at the Shomer Museum in Kfar Giladi.[1][2][3] Contents 1 Biography 2 Art career 3 Awards and recognition 4 See also 5 References Biography[edit] Born in Malyn, Ukraine, in 1900, Batia Lishansky was the youngest of the four daughters of Shoshanna (1865–1944) and Meir Yonah Lishansky (1862–1942). After immigrating to Palestine with her mother in 1910, she studied for a year at the Bezalel Institute under Boris Schatz. She then spent a period at the Rome Academy of Fine Arts but returned to Palestine in 1921, settling at the Ein Harod kibbutz and exhibiting her early wood sculptures. In 1923, she went to Berlin where she studied for three years before spending a further three years at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. She returned to Palestine in 1929.[1][4] Batia Lishansky died in Tel Aviv in 1992.[1] Art career[edit] In a style ranging from expressiveness to realism, her early works were influenced by Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel.[4] Among the hundreds of busts she created of historic Israeli figures are those of prime ministers David Ben-Gurion, Menahem Begin and Golda Meir. However, she is known above all for her memorials, including Commemorating the Fallen for those who died in the War of Independence (1947–1949). Depicting heroism and comradeship, the series of three can be found at Kfar Yehoshua, Beit Keshet and Kadoorie Agricultural Village. Her memorial "From Holocaust to Revival" is located at Netzer Sereni.[1][3] Awards and recognition[edit] Lishansky received the Dizengoff Prize for her contributions to sculpture on two occasions: in 1944 and 1957. In 1986, she was honoured with the Israel Prize for Lifework in Sculpture.[3]  ***** Batia Lishansky, sculptor, born 1900, Malin, Ukraine, died 1992. Education 1918 Bezalel with Boris Schatz, Abel Pann, Z. Raban 1919 Academy of Art, Rome, Italy 1923-25 Kunstgewerbeschule, Berlin, Germany 1925-28 École des Beaux-Arts, Paris Awards And Prizes 1944 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture 1957 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1986 Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Sculpture Environmental Sculptures 1931 Tel Mond, Lord Melchett; 1948 Bet Keshet; 1948-53 Commemorating the Fallen, Kadouri Agricultural Village; 1957 Kibbutz Einat, In Memory of the Three; 1954-57 Kadouri Agriculture Village, Commemorating the Fallen; 1957 Borohov Quarter, Commemorating the Pogroms in Ukraine; 1960 Lochamei Hagetaot, Picture of the Holocaust; 1960 Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, Silver Platter; 1967 Kibbutz Netzer Sereni, Commemorating the Holocaust; 1985 Gal-On, IIlegal Immigration. ****   Batia Lichansky 1901–1992 by Batya Brutin Agony, 1929, by Batia Lichansky. Courtesy of Batya Brutin. In Brief Batia Lichansky was the first female sculptor in Israel. Lichansky was born in Ukraine and immigrated to Palestine in 1910. She studied at Bezalel in 1919 and exhibited wooden sculptures. She studied in Berlin for three years and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, returning to Palestine in 1929. Working from a Socialist-Zionist standpoint she always represented men and women as equals in her work. She also created many monuments and over 100 portraits of public figures. Lichansky won the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Dizengoff Prize twice, in 1944 and 1957. In 1982 she contributed over 30 of her works to a permanent exhibit at the Shomer Museum in Kefar Giladi. After her death, her home in Tel Aviv became a gallery where her work is shown. Contents 1  Early Life and Education 2  Artistic Career 3  Busts 4  Honors and Legacy 5  Bibliography Through portrait sculptures, reliefs, and memorials sculpted in stone, wood and bronze, the work of Batia Lichansky, Israel’s first woman sculptor, expresses the pioneer Zionist spirit during the formative years of the State of Israel and its struggle for existence. Early Life and Education Batia Lichansky was born in 1901 in Malin, Ukraine, the youngest of four daughters of Shoshanna (1865–1944) and Meir Yonah (1862–1942) Lishansky. Her older siblings were Sarah (1884–1924), Golda (Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi, 1886–1979), and Tamar (1892–1983). She immigrated to Palestine in 1910 with her mother. Immediately after World War I she began to study at the Bezalel Institute, where her teachers included Boris Shatz (1866–1932), Abel Pann (1883–1963) and Ze’ev Raban (1890–1970). Finding her studies unsatisfactory, she left at the end of the year and went to study at the Academy of Art in Rome. When the 1921 riots broke out Lichansky returned to Palestine, joined the labor brigade and settled on Kibbutz En-Harod in 1922. Before a year had passed the urge to create spurred her to travel to Berlin, where she studied art for three years. She then studied for a further three years at the Beaux Arts Academy in Paris. Artistic Career Lichansky’s artistic style developed in two directions: realistic-naturalistic and expressionistic. She remained faithful to her own style, uninfluenced by the changes of style in Israeli art over the years. See Also: Encyclopedia: Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi Lichansky’s work comprises two aspects, the national and the personal. From the national perspective, her memorials, which are scattered throughout the country, express the life of the country throughout approximately half a century, commemorating events connected to the Jewish people. Her memorial Ukraine Massacres (1955–1957), in memory of the riots that broke out in Kishinev, Ukraine in 1903, depicts frightened Jews—men, women and children—fleeing for their lives. Commemorating the Three (1957–1959), located on Kibbutz          Einat, and Work and Defense (1930–1937) on Kibbutz Huldah, commemorate not only the suffering but also the determination to settle the Land of Israel during the British Mandate period. They depict young people who gave their lives for their country. The relief Ha’apalah (1985) on Kibbutz       Gal-On, which commemorates the clandestine immigration of Jews who succeeded in fleeing Europe before the outbreak of World War II, shows a stream of refugees meeting Israelis who welcome them. Holocaust and Rebirth (1965–1968) on Kibbutz Nezer Sereni comprises a round space with a pile of basalt stones in the center—figures depicting exhaustion, despair, rescue and survival—from the midst of which breaks forth a wave of figures led by a man and a woman who symbolize the start of national rebirth. Three monumental memorials entitled Commemorating the Fallen, dedicated to those who were killed in the War of Independence, are located respectively at Kibbutz Kefar Yehoshua (1949–1953), Bet Keshet (1956–1958) and Kadouri (1957–1960). In each Lichansky depicted the sacrifice, heroism and comradeship of the fighters. Busts At the same time that the memorials were erected, Lichansky sculpted the busts of more than 100 figures, including members of Bar Giora, members of Ha-Shomer, authors such as Joseph Hayyim Brenner (1881–1921; 1936), poet Yokheved Bat-Miriam (1936), painter Annie Neuman (1906–1955; 1943), dancer Tehila Ressler (1934), Presidents Izhak Ben-Zvi (1884–1963; 1955) and Chaim Herzog (1918–1997; 1985), prime ministers David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973; 1960), Menahem Begin (1913–1992; 1979) and Golda Meir (1986), and Tel Aviv mayors Meir Dizengoff (1861–1936), David Bloch (1884–1947; 1946), and Yehoshua Rabinowitz (1911–1979; 1973). The personal aspect of Lichansky’s work is evident in the busts of members of her family: her mother (1933), her father (1945), her sisters Sarah Lishansky, one of the founders of the Histadrut’s health fund (1941), Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi, wife of President Izhak Ben-Zvi (1980), Tamar Scheu (1981), a physician and the founder of the Asthma Institute in Jerusalem, and sculptures of the younger generation of her family such as Eli (1930) and Yael (1964). Between 1923 and 1935 she produced miniatures and many sketches which deal with the human image, expressing humanity, physical gestures, feeling and thought. Honors and Legacy In 1982 Lichansky contributed 30 of her works to a permanent exhibit at the Shomer Museum in Kefar Giladi. She later added other works to it, making it the largest collection of her works. After her death the home in Tel Aviv where she lived and worked became a gallery where some of her prints, miniatures, paintings and sketches are shown. See Also: Encyclopedia: Artists: Yishuv and Israel: 1920-1970 Lichansky won the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality’s Dizengoff Prize twice, in 1944 and in 1957, and was declared a Worthy of Tel Aviv in 1986 for “her contribution to society and the state through her life’s work, the fruit of untiring labor in modesty and under indescribably difficult conditions. Her exemplary life in the creation of artistic sculpture, perpetuating Jewish and Israeli, human and ethical values, are an inseparable part of the pioneer spirit and the deeds of those who built this country.” Batia Lichansky died in Tel Aviv in 1992. Selected Works By Batia Lichansky  Miniatures Lament. 1923–1925; Grief. 1923–1925; Agony. 1929. Portraits Artist’s Mother. 1933; David Ben-Gurion. 1960; Izhak Ben-Zvi. 1955; Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi. 1980. Monuments Commemorating the Fallen. 1956–1958; Holocaust and Rebirth. 1965–1968. Drawings Nightmare. 1926; Embrace. 1929; Embarrassment. 1954; Motherhood. 1969. Bibliography Epstein, Ariela. Batia Lichansky. Tel Aviv: 1988. Holocaust and Rebirth Memorial: The Monument in Netser Sereni by Batia Lichansky. Ramat Gan: 1969. ***** Batya Lishanski (בתיה לישנסקי), née en 1900 à Malyn dans l'actuel oblast de Jytomyr en Ukraine, mais alors dans le gouvernement de Kiev, et morte le 31 décembre 1992 à Tel Aviv, est une sculptrice israélienne. Sommaire 1 Biographie 2 Prix et distinctions 3 Bibliographie 4 Liens externes Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Elle naît en 1900 dans une famille juive à Malyn dans la région de Jytomyr en Ukraine et émigra avec sa mère et ses sœurs en Palestine en 1910. Ella avait trois sœurs plus âgées : Sara, Tamar et Golda Rachel. Golda Rachel Lishanski fut connue comme Rachel Yannayit Ben-Zvi, la femme du second président de l'État d'Israël. Sa sœur aînée, Sara, a été la fondatrice de la première polyclinique de la Caisse d'assurance-maladie Koupat Holim Klalit. Batya Lishanski fréquenta l'école Hertzliya à Tel-Aviv, où elle apprit la peinture avec Ira Yan, puis poursuivit des études à l'École des beaux-arts de Bezalel à Jérusalem, avec Boris Schatz, Abel Pann et Zeev Rabban, et ensuite à Rome. Contrariée par les événements en Palestine en 1920-1921, elle retourna au pays, adhéra au Bataillon du Travail et devint quelque temps membre du kibboutz Eïn-Harod. Elle quitta de nouveau le pays pour l'étranger, à Berlin et à Paris où elle travailla chez l'artiste Hana Orlov. Batya Lishanski exposa dans de nombreuses expositions (au Salon des Indépendants à Paris, 1926, au Caire en 1930, au Stedelijk Museum d'Amsterdam en 1952, au Pavillon Helena Rubinstein pour art contemporaine à Tel Aviv en 1962) et fut à l'origine de différentes stèles commémoratives d'Israël. Ses œuvres sont centrées sur les sentiments de lutte, de défense, d'héroïsme et de douleur. Les plus célèbres de ses sculptures se trouvent au moshav Kfar-Yéhoshoua et dans les kibboutzim Beït-Keshet et Houlda. Batya Lishanski a été l'auteur de la statue en bronze représentant Yigal Allon, posée à l'entrée du musée de Nof-Guinossar. Batya Lishanski est morte à Tel Aviv le 31 décembre 1992. Prix et distinctions[modifier | modifier le code] Prix Israël de sculpture, avec Yehiel Shemi, en 1985 Prix Dizengoff de la ville de Tel-Aviv, en 1944 et 1957 Citoyenne d'honneur de la ville de Tel-Aviv, en 1985 Bibliographie[modifier | modifier le code] Yaakov Shavit et al, Lexicon de personnalités, Éd. Am-Oved Ilana Shamir, Gal'ed, Éd. du ministère de la Défense, 1989 Efraïm et Ménahem Talmi, Lexicon sioniste, Tel-Aviv, Éd. Maariv, 1982  ****  .   ebay 5464 folder 198