Yehezkel Streichmann

Not relined. There is craquelure throughout due to heavy paint application; it is heavier on the upper half of the painting. There are 7 spots of paint loss on the left 1/4 area of the painting. There are no signs of inpainting when viewed under uv.
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Yehezkel Streichman was born in Kovno, Lithunania in 1906. He came to Palestine in 1924, where he studied at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.  Streichman was one of the founding members of the Israeli avant-garde movement New Horizons in 1948 and in 1969 a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. He was the recipient of the 1990 Israel Prize.

In the 1960's Streichman limited his palette and his works were more abstract than they had been in the previous decade. Autumn at My Window is composed of layers of complexity and harmony; a network of linear planes and thickly applied paint in which the exterior and interior become one. Yigal Zalmona observes "Streichman is a consummate oil painter, who builds color in a slow-ripening process of layer upon layer which, conversely he applies also in his watercolors...His paintings of the early 1960s, at least at first glance appear to be his most abstract works. But not only was his palette "local" (ochre, yellow and brown, green, sky blue, dull colors – a kind of turbid Tel Aviv autumn or desert summer), his paintings were also given titles such as "Desert Landscape," "Autumn in My Window," "After the Harvest," and others, all referring to a given reality. To the crude and rugged material is added a scenic atmosphere recalling his earlier landscapes. Now, the creative process is no longer dependent on the observation of a certain subject. The creation stems from the material and the play of colors into the doughy paste on the canvas." (Yehezkel Streichman, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum (exhibition catalogue), 1987).