Avraham Azmon, Israeli Artist. 2 Oil on cardboard paintings “Flowers in a vase”
Not signed. The paintings were received from the artist.
Size: 22 x 17 cm.(8.6 x 6.7 inches), size with passé partout: 30 x 26 cm. (11.8 x 10.2 inches)
17 x 16 cm.(6.7 x 6.3 inches) size with passé partout: 31.5 x 25.5 cm. (14.8 x 10 inches)
Some discoloring to passé partout.
Avraham Azmon (1917-2008) was born in Israel to a religious Yemenite family in a rather poor, hard working class neighborhood of Tel-Aviv, on the border between Tel-Aviv and Jaffa, called "Mahane Yoseph" (the camp of Joseph). Azmon's father was a Hazzan whose function is to lead, in singing and reciting, the prayers in the synagogue. Azmon's formal education started with four years of a Yemenite Talmud-Torah. Then he continued in the Tachkemoni elementary school in Tel-Aviv, which he finished around 1932.
After finishing school he found work as a locksmith and did not follow his artistic tendencies which were discovered around this time. His first period of serious painting was between the years 1934-1938 - in that period he acquired experience in making frames for pictures - the profession of which he made his living for the rest of his life. In the years 1937-38, he managed a small art gallery in Tel-Aviv - Yad Oman (the hand of the artist) where he got acquainted with some of the young painters in Tel-Aviv of those days.
Azmon was a self-taught painter and his resume does not include any formal studies of art.