Bidspirit auction | Lidia ZAVADSKY 1937-2001

Lidia ZAVADSKY 1937-2001 - Hand painted ceramic. Hand painted ceramic, unique  42x30x30 cm, signed Lidia Zavadsky, Israeli, born Poland, 1937-2001. Zavadsky’s early works included practical tools and three-dimensional sculptures made on a potter’s wheel, heavily influenced by Gedula Ogen. Her work from the 1960s and 1970s that were sculptures in form, were influenced also by themes from the Israeli landscape. In the 1980s her work began to open up to postmodernist influences, and she began to work in porcelain as the main raw material for her art. Between 1981 and 1986 she created sculptural works that combined academic drawing with an examination of the concept of three-dimensionality. Between 1993 and 1997 she produced a series of large-scale sculptural jugs decorated in intensely-colored glazes. These works won wide acclaim in the Israeli art world.