Photography: Shuki Kook

This work of art is one of several pieces by Angus Massi exhibited in the Museum. It is made of bronze and it leaves the impression that a mirror separates the upper portion from the lower one, thereby appearing to double the small figure. However, on closer examination, the differences between the two portions gradually […]

Antoine-Louis Barye was considered to be one of the most esteemed sculptors in France at the start of the 19th century. He knew how to depict animals in a super-realistic form in small sculptures. In the “Camel” sculpture, Louis Barye presents an oriental situation of a Middle-Eastern boy sitting on a camel. On his head […]

The Polish artist Anna Goebel makes use of available materials in particular in her region, including birch wood twigs. “God of the Wind” which is composed of these twigs appears as a grass mat which has unravelled, or long feminine hair which has been mussed and there are even those that see connotations with the […]

Laocoon was a Greek mythological figure who was a Trojan priest and due to his defiance was punished by the gods and strangled together with his sons by a snake. This situation has received many interpretations in art in numerous variations. The version by the American sculptor Beverly Pepper presents a combination of wood, marble […]

The Candlestick Series was created using the ready-made method in which Ilana Goor has integrated a number of elements such as hookahs, bowls, saucers and small sculptures of ceramic birds, painted in freehand in brilliant colors. Each of the candlesticks is half a meter high and has the appearance of an architectural object incorporating numerous […]

This full body sculpture is the portrait of Jacques Lipchitz,  who was one of the leading Jewish sculptors of the early 20th century.  The sculpture was created by the Israeli artist David Zundelowitz.

A Christian statue made of wood which was found by Ilana Goor during her globetrotting depicting a figure of a believer, dressed in pieces of jute and her hands placed as a gesture perhaps in prayer or perhaps a blessing of peace. This statue, as many of the Christian statues, was designed, in the period […]