Krize Yehiel (1908-1968) Polish Israeli Artist sketch Pencil Drawing Men

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Here for auction Krize Yehiel (1908-1968) Polish Israeli Artist sketch Pencil Drawing Old Man.
Measures: 31X30 cm.
It is drawing on thin paper, little bit got yellow but still in good condition.
In good condition overall, little bit folding at the edges of the paper.
Sign on the Right bottom corner with the estate signature (provement that it is drawing by the artist from the estate managment)!
Have a nice bidding!
Yehiel Krize was born in 1908, Kalisz, Poland.
Immigrated to Israel on 1924. In the early 1930s, krize studied with Zaritsky and worked under the guidance of Stematsky. Very few of his early, tranquil watercolors have survived. In the mid-1940s his "handwriting" became expressive and his paintings, conveying the pragmatic Zionist pioneer spirit, depicted workshop and factory interiors, workers in urban settings, and harbor scenes. These works display an incipient abstract conception in the geometric forms of the factory machines, the harbor cranes, and the cityscapes, creating balanced horizontal and vertical rhythms within a colorful composition. Krize maintained that the grid structure of his work was rooted in his past as a weaver, and that his flat depictions of the sea and of citrus groves reflected his reminiscences from the pioneer years.
In the 1950s, Krize became fully aligned with the abstract trend in Israeli painting. His cityscapes, which had until then been of a semi-abstract character, were now reduced to a consummate array of form and color. During a visit to the United States he was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, as evinced in his subsequent work, consisting of formal compositions executed with forceful strokes of the brush. The 1960s, in contrast, are known as Krize's "white period." In his paintings from this phase white predominates, occasionally complemented by red and black By this emphatic use of white he canceled out volume, approaching pure abstraction and affirming his dictum that white represents "man's triumph over nature."
Prizes 1947, 1948 Dizengoff Prize. Died 1968. 1992 Memorial Exhibition held in Tel Aviv.