Bidspirit auction | Yigal Ozeri

Yigal Ozeri - From the Empty Chair series, 1992. Oil and charcoal on parchment paper mounted on framed cardboard  75/100 cm Signed A painting by Ozeri from 1992 was exhibited at the Haifa Museum in the exhibition ''The Absent Present: The Empty Chair in Your Works Yigal Ozeri'' 1994. The keen-eyed will find Ozeri's famous dove sitting on the chair. The painting came from a respected art collection. Yigal Ozeri is an Israeli artist, born in 1958. Ozeri was born in Holon, and studied art at the Art Institute in Bat Yam. Ozeri moved to New York in the 1980s, and has lived and created there ever since. Ozeri began painting in an abstract style, but at a more advanced stage he moved to realistic painting, and today he has adapted a unique language of mainly hyper-realistic painting.