Ori Reisman

Overall in good condition. Original canvas. There are three patches (3 by 3 cm,; 2 by 2 cm. and 8 by 3 cm.) on the reverse of the canvas which correspond with restored areas that fluoresce when viewed under ultra violet light (two areas are on the houses on the right of the work and one is on the top left are of the sky). There is also some scattered areas of craquelure throughout.
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This is an early example of Ori Reisman's love of landscapes. Reisman portrays the normally bustling Jaffa harbor in a tranquil setting. Omitting human presence, the artist contrasts the subdued blue sea and the limpid sky with the bold vertical lines of the stark, man-made crane. "To Reisman's mind, communication with the landscape is a fundamental 'value', and any attempt to apply it to pragmatic purposes inevitably distorts it. The artist seeks to limit his human presence as far as possible so as not to disturb the supreme unity in which there is no place for the individual, the ephemeral, or the finite. This unity represents what is innate, unchanging and eternal. He seeks poetry in nature deriving from the objects and their interrelations which bear a spiritual quality beyond their physical reality." (Galia Bar Or, Ori Reisman, Kibbutz Kabri, 1998, p. 138).