Mordecai Moreh (1937) Rhinoceros Tempera 1966 Iraq

Mordecai Moreh (Hebrew: מרדכי מורה), born November 15, 1937 in Baghdad, is a French-Israeli engraver and painter of Iraqi origin. Mordecai Moreh was born into a wealthy Jewish family. After an adolescence in Iraq interrupted by the farhoud during the Second World War, he emigrated to Israel at the age of 14. He studied at the Bezalel School of Fine Arts and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence before settling permanently in Paris in 1962. A drypoint engraver, his favorite theme is a bestiary of imaginary animals, most often depicted wounded, crucified, to denounce the cruelty and injustice of Man. He also uses mixed media and paints in tempera with several layers of oil paint, in the manner of the Old Masters. His life and work are also marked by a ceaseless spiritual search.

Mixed media of watercolor, gouache, pencil and ink. The work is signed lower left and dated 1966.

On view 47.5 x 63.5 cm.
The frame measures 67 x 83 cm.