Lot 60: MIRIT COHEN 1945-1990

overall: 27 1/2 by 25 3/4 in.<br><br>70 by 65.5cm

oil on panels, scored and mounted on to frames

QUANTITY: 2

Mirit Cohen was born in Ukbekistan shortly after the end of the World War II, She and her family emigrated to Israel. At the age of 17, she decided to devote herself to art and studied under Yehezkel Streichman and Raffi Lavie. Her first one-person exhibition in 1972 at the Dugit Gallery in Tel Aviv received excellent reviews. In 1975, she was awarded the America Israel Cultural Foundation Grant to study in New York where she remained until her premature and tragic death in 1990. Mirit Cohen's work was presented in several one-person shows including a 1994 exhibition in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, a 1998 exhibition at the Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany and a 1999 exhibition at the Nolan-Eckman Gallery in New York.
Arturo Schwartz, discussing Mirit Cohen's work, comments: "Both her involvement with Performance Art, in New York Galleries and on Manhattan's streets, and the subtle and poetic use she made of discarded everyday objects in her art, glass fragments, electric wire, copper odds and ends, etc., testify that she succeeded in bridging life and art and, in so doing, was able to live and reveal the poetic dimension of existence." (Arturo Schwartz in Love at First Sight: The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwartz Collection of Israeli Art, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum (exhibition catalogue), 2001, p. 206).