Raffi Lavie

1937 - 2007
Lavie was born in 1937 in Ramat Gan and began his career in the visual art world after participating in an art class of Haim Gamzu at the former “people’s university” in Tel Aviv. In 1955 he joined the army but was released after being wounded and recognized as an IDF disabled veteran. Lavie is considered by many to be one of the most important and influential artists in Israeli art in general and Israeli painting in particular. In 1965 he began working as a teacher at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts where he educated generations of young artists. His paintings are characterized by specific signs which usually reflect his emotional, rational and personal world, looking at his paintings is like deciphering symbols, an act that requires a rich reservoir of complex associations. Lavi became the most identified minimalist artist who worked with materials that were not accepted and considered inferior. In his paintings he presents a new aesthetic of unusual compositions, erasings, sheets of plywood instead of canvases and use of acrylic and industrial paints instead of oil paints. Many of his works are based on a spontaneous pencil scribble, which has become one of the most prominent features of his paintings. Over the years, Lavie would attach photographs, reproductions and various posters to his paintings, thus creating different levels of aesthetics in one work and turning the banal and the vague into art. In the 1980s, Sarah Breitberg-Semel curated one of the most important and memorable exhibitions in Israeli art - "The Want of Matter: A Quality in Israeli Art" - at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. She placed Lavie's paintings in the center of the exhibition as he was a leading figure in the Israeli art world, his paintings were a symbol to the "Want of Matter" art style which may important artists followed and had Lavie at its core. This style was characterized by the use of meager materials and a critical attitude to the social reality and to the myths of Israeli society.

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 2003,Acrylic and pencil on wood, 54x52…

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$1,000 - $1,500

Lot : 477

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1959,Pencil and panda on paper, 33X49…

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$400 - $600

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Raffi Lavie
Head 1996, Mixed media on a book…

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$400 - $600

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Raffi Lavie
Geranium, 1994,Acrylic and pencil on plywood, 122x125…

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$5,000 - $8,000

Lot : 210

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1965,Oil on wood, 39x33 cm.Signed and…

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$2,000 - $3,000

Previous auctions

Lot : 63

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1962, watercolor and pencil on paper,…

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280

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1982, Mixed media on paper laid…

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1000

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1967, Ink and colored pencils on…

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440

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Raffi Lavie
Tribute to Garbuz, 1973, Mixed media on…

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4800

Lot : 129

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1975, Oil and collage on canvas,…

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9500

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, (596) Oil and collage on plywood,…

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6000

Lot : 326

Raffi Lavie
A train and a sun, 1958, Watercolor…

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550

Lot : 328

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1996, Mixed media on paper, 40X31…

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440

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 2004, Acrylic and pencil on wood,…

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1100

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled (231), 1967, Oil on canvas, 92X60…

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6500

Lot : 227

Raffi Lavie
Geranium, 1996 (890), Acrylic and pencil on…

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5500

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1963, Panda and colored pencils on…

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300

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1968, pencil and panda on paper,…

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340

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Raffi Lavie
Geranium, 1994, panda, acrylic and pencil on…

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380

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Raffi Lavie
Bride and Groom, 1967, panda and colored…

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600

Lot : 340

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1968, mixed media on paper, 50X33…

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1300

Lot : 341

Raffi Lavie
I Love You, 1960, panda, marker and…

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440

Lot : 109

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1984, Oil and mixed media on…

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2800

Lot : 146

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1967, Oil on canvas, 60X60 cm.…

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4400

Lot : 147

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 2003, Acrylic on wood, 123X121 cm.…

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$8,000 - $12,000

Lot : 170

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1960, Oil on board , 66X48…

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2400

Lot : 171

Raffi Lavie
The Big Bear, 1999, Acrylic and pencil…

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$6,000 - $9,000

Lot : 172

Raffi Lavie
Geranium, 1994 (481), Mixed media on plywood,…

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$6,000 - $9,000

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Raffi Lavie
Figure with Flowers, 1957, panda on paper,…

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800

Lot : 73

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1967, Mixed media on paper, 48.5X68…

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$300 - $500

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Raffi Lavie
Drinking Together, 1968, marker and panda on…

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260

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1962, colored pencils on paper, 35X25…

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550

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1962, pencil and panda on paper,…

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360

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Raffi Lavie
Untitled, 1967, panda and colored pencils on…

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850

Lot : 13

רפי לביא
ללא כותרת, (עץ), 1968, פנדה וטוש על…

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800

Lot : 13

Raffi Lavie
Untitled, (Wood), 1968, panda and marker on…

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800

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