Bidspirit auction | Moshe Castel 1909 - 1991

Moshe Castel 1909 - 1991 - Angels above the City. Watercolor, 50X35 cm, Signed. About The Artist: painter, born 1909, Jerusalem, descended from a Jewish-Spanish family which came from Castile in 1492. He stayed in Paris until 1940. First paintings were landscapes and portraits of Jewish types in Oriental style in the 1940s mystical paintings of the French School, in Safed later abstracts, designed logos, souvenirs and murals, one of which was for the Accadia Hotel. He used lettering as the inspiration for pictures, two in the Knesset and in the President's Residence. 1947 Was a founder of the New Horizons Group.