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Rare Large Aharon Bezalel Israeli Modernist Unique Bronze Brutalist Sculpture

By Aharon Bezalel

Located in Surfside, FL

Monumental, Unique Aharon Bezalel (Israel 1925-2012) Silvered Metal Sculpture.

(I assume it is bronze but am not positive of the composition) Measurements - 63.5 inches high x 12 wide x 12 deep. It is signed at the metal base. Depicting a family group. Aharon Bezalel (born Afghanistan 1926) Born in Herat, Afghanistan in 1926 and immigrated to Israel at an early age.

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His father, Reuven Bezalel, was a rabbi and kabbalist. As a youth Aharon studied gold and silver casting as well as applied arts and worked in these fields as a silversmith and judaica craftsman, and was a student of the sculptor Zev Ben-Zvi at the Bezalel Academy for Art & Design where he also studied with Isidor Ascheim and Mordechai Ardon.

There he absorbed the basic concepts of classic and modernist art and interpreted, according to them, ideas based on ancient Hebrew