Zoe Sever

Beit Netofa Valley,

Oil on canvas, 150X200 cm.

Signed. Signed and titled on the reverse.

Zoe Sever, a virtuoso painter, who in her work masterly combines color and texture, never stops to surprise. In her profound multilayered paintings she keeps treating landscapes of her beloved country, showing it through her unique creative artistic vision. Sever builds up her mixed eclectic style, which is only hers, and keeps developing it in her unique uncompromising way. Zoe Sever’s success among art collectors both in Israel and abroad proves that for her figurative, eclectic, naturalistic and naïve painting there definitely is a place on the modern stage. In her public interview before one of her latest exhibitions, Zoe accentuates that ” the object of her love is Israeli landscape, which she sees as a fascinating colorful mosaic built of amazing medley of voices, sounds, colors, styles, of city and nature, of East and West…”.

In his book Pablo Picasso wrote that ”what a child and a genius have in common mostly reveals in the innocence and the sublime sharpness of glance; the common denominator here is an observation of the world as a strange and alien object, as an obscure drama.” And this is how Zoe Sever works and creates her art. With noble beauty, which she finds in typical and wild Israeli nature scenes, drawn by the artist together with her well known urban views; with fairness, while she couples the pure and sincere innocence with symbolic and mythic details, by this creating deep and meaningful allusions in her drawings, full of spatial movement; in her works, which call for a repeated viewing.

Her latest work ”Beit Netofa Valley” reveals the artist’s advanced stylistic development, which combines her typical intense mosaic of textures with developed neorealistic painting. This is a Galilee valley with the major reservoir of the National Water Carrier of Israel, irrigating the country known for its tough and impermeable land. Dr. Racheli Einav writes in Teva Ha-Dvarim (Nature of Things) magazine that ”Those in Beit Netofa Valley feel isolated from the rest of the world. Time seems to have stopped in the Valley; there are swamps and cultivated fields, where the crop is harvested with the sickle…” The Valley symbolizes for the artist the essence of Israeli landscape, the object of true love to the local landscape and to the native land. In her painting ”Beit Netofa Valley” Zoe Sever keeps quoting as usual allegoric mythological motives, which often appear in Israeli art, such as folds of the earth and details of dramatic stormy landscape, combined with the pastoral serenity of flocks of sheep grazing peacefully in the heart of the valley.

Doron Polak, curator International Artists’ Museum. .

Estimated price: $7,000 - $10,000

Sold for: 7500

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