Mexico (children fishing off of a pier)

 

Moshe Gat

  1935 - PRESENT (biography)

1959  

color woodcut 

35 1/4 x 22 3/8" image size 

pencil, lower left 

13 of 80  

pencil titled, dated, and editioned; artist's pencil signature in Hebrew in lower right 

 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

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This Painter and printmaker Moshe Gat was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1935. In 1952, he began to study at Bezalel School of Art. In 1958-1960, he went to Mexico, where he was influenced by Mexican figurative painting. He studied graphic techniques such as colored woodblock printing, copper engraving and lithography. Initially, he taught art and math at schools run by the Mexican Jewish community. Gradually he built up his career as an artist, mounting several solo shows during this period. In the early 1960s, he moved to the United States. In 1962, he returned to Haifa. At the end of the 1960s, he moved to Old Jaffa.