J erome♓ and Ellen Stern were passionate collectors of art from across the globe, including Israel, and they played an important role in supporting the museums there. Regular visitors to their home in Jerusalem, they frequently visited with artists and curators.
They enjoyed a particularly long and close friendship with Menashe Kadishman and acquired many works by the artist over the years. 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Forest was a particularly important purchase, having originally been displayed in Central Park as part of an exhibition that extended beyond the walls of the Jewish Museum in a show curated by Susan Goodman called in 1970.
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Also represented in the collection is Zadok Ben-David, an Israไeli sculptor of enormous talent. Now residing in London, he has exhibited his installations all over the world, including in England, Israel, China, Japan, Uzbekistan, South Korea and Australia, Germany and Italy.
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