SELF PORTRAIT
1947 Oil on canvas 54 x 65.5 cm.
Magal family private collection
"SHEPHERD
ON HORSE"
1962 Oil on canvas 136 x 190 cm.
Magal family
private collection
"THE
SEA OF GALILEE"
Silk-screen 94 X 80 cm.
Limited edition 250
"FISHERMEN
ON THE SEA OF GALILEE"
Silk-screen 60 X 80 cm.
Limited edition 250
"STREET CORNER"
1944 Oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm
Magal family private
collection
"OLIVE HARVEST"
1962 Oil on canvas 88.5 x 116 cm.
Magal family private
collection
"WOMEN AND
DONKEY"
1970 Oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm.
Magal family private
collection
"MIDRASH
STUDY HOUSE"
Silk-screen 46 X 60 cm.
Limited edition 250
"FISHERMEN
ON THE SEA OF GALILEE"
Silk-screen 110 X 80 cm.
Limited edition 250
"BEDOUIN TENT"
1962 Oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm.
Magal family private
collection
"WOMEN IN
THE FIELD"
1962Oil on canvas 130 x 65 cm.
Magal family private
collection
"THE
HOLY ARK"
Silk-screen 60 X 80 cm.
Limited edition 250
"PURIM
GIFT "
Silk-screen 35 X 66 cm.
Limited edition 250
"WATER SELLER"
Silk screen 40
x 50 cm.
Limited edition
250
"KLEZMERIM"
Silk screen 50
x 40 cm.
Limited edition
250
"WEDDING"
1970 oil
on canvas 116 x 89 cm.
Magal family private collection
"WEDDING"
Silk screen 77 x
60 cm.
Limited edition
250
"DANCERS
IN BLUE"
Silk-screen 60 X 79 cm.
Limited edition 250
"DANCERS"
Silk-screen 67 X 75 cm.
Limited edition 250
"SWAN LAKE"
1970 Oil on canvas 130 x 89 cm.
Magal family private
collection
CAFE "TAVERNA"
ON THE CARMEL
1949 Oil on canvas 41 x 33 cm.
Magal family private
collection
"PLOWING"
1962 Oil on canvas 116 x 92 cm.
Magal family private
collection
"LANDSCAPE"
1965 Oil on canvas 93 x 72 cm.
Magal family private
collection
THE EILAT "SHEKEM"
1963 Oil on canvas 89 x 65 cm.
Magal family private
collection
| Ben
Zion Magal (1908 - 1999) Ben
Zion Magal was born in 1908 in Kishinev - Russia and
there, years later, graduated from the Art Academy.
He arrived to Erertz Israel together with his wife Chaya,
an artist in her own right, in 1933 and settled in Haifa.
He brought with him artistic talent, experience and
memories from his father's home and of the warm charm
of the "Jewish shtetl".
In order to survive, as an artist, in mandatory Palestine,
one had to be a tough person.
Magal, as many others had to create in a cultural desert
and material poverty, without support of museums, galleries
or any institutional backing. They started literally
from scratch.
Together with other Haifa artists, he founded the Haifa
Association of Artists. Later he was one of the first
members of the Israel Association of Painters and Sculptors
and was among the founders of the artistic village Ein
- Hod, near Haifa.
Magal's style is mainly impressionistic. The Israeli
landscape is the main topic in his paintings. The composition
of the beautiful Israeli landscape, the desert and the
oriental aspects are strongly expressed in the sunlight
of the land. In this he follows the main trend of Israeli
painters who saw, from the beginning, the landscape
as one of the most important subjects.
Magal's other topic, deals with Jewish life and tradition
in the East European "shtetl". He brings on
the canvas his childhood memories of the "school",
the Carter, tailor and poultry vendor. These paintings
bind him to the Jewish painters who bequeathed to the
following generations, an artistic expression of the
Jewish tradition and way of life that was so violently
terminated and does not exist any more.
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