Lot 105: Catriel Efrony (b.1923 Austrian) VIEW IN ZFAT

Catriel Efrony (b.1923 Austrian) VIEW IN ZFAT signed gouache 49 x 34cms; 19 1/4 x 13 1/4in. Efrony escaped from Vienna where he was born in 1938 after the Nazis invaded the city. Fleeing to Palestine he became one of the founders of Kibbutz Gesher in the Jordan Valley. He studied art in Tel-Aviv under Y. Streichman in the early 1960's. Following that he spent three years in South America studying at the Bellas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. He then moved to Paris in 1972 and later returned to Israel to settle in the Artists Colony "In Zfat". Catriel Efrony has exhibited in Israel and in Europe and is a member of the Israeli Painters Association and was for some years Chair of the Artists Colony "in Zfat"." See also Lot 150