Auction 78
Special Auction - Contemporary Israeli Art.
By PASAREL
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Oct 23, 2023
18 Haim Levanon St. Neve Itamar Netanya, Israel
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LOT 31:
Osvaldo Romberg (1938-2019) - Oil on Canvas.
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Sold for: $340
Start price:
$
200
Estimated price :
$400 - $600
Buyer's Premium: 20%
VAT: 17%
On commission only
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Osvaldo Romberg (1938-2019) - Oil on Canvas.
Signed.
61x76.5cm.
Osvaldo Romberg (28 May 1938 - 26 November 2019) was an Argentine artist, curator, and professor. He lived and worked in Israel, Philadelphia, New York, and Isla Grande, Brazil.
Romberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1938. His parents were Jewish immigrants who emigrated to Argentina. He attended high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. After graduating in 1955, he studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires between 1956 and 1962.
He taught Painting and Color Theory at different universities in Argentina and Latin America until he was forced to flee the Argentine Dirty War, in 1973. He then settled in Israel, where he taught at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design for 20 years. In 1993, he began teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
His paintings, books, installations, films, and architectural watercolors have been exhibited internationally. Among others, he exhibitied at the Negev Museum of Art, Beersheba (2018), the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires (2012), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2011). His works are collected at the Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires), the Museo de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), The Ludwig Museum (Cologne), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
He was the Senior Curator at Slought Foundation.
