Signed and numbered framed brutalist print by Moshe Tamir. Numbered 9/12 and signed "M. Tamir" lower right. Beautifully framed. Moshe Tamir (Hebrew: ??? ?????; 1924 – 13 November 2004) was an Odessa, Russia, Russian-born Israeli painter. Tamir completed his studies at Israel’s Bezalel Academy of Art in 1947 where he won the Hermann Struck prize presented by the painter Mordechai Ardon. In 1952, Tamir graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he specialised in fresco and monumental painting, and was chosen by his teacher, the renowned fresco artist Prozzo Parchi, to become his assistant in painting murals at the Church of St. Eugene in Rome. Tamir’s work encompasses oil, fresco, drawing and gouache. One of Tamir’s masterpieces – a magnificent fresco Amnon Wounded, part of a permanent exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum – earned him honorable citation at the Venice Biennale. In 1954 Tamir moved to the Montparnasse in Paris, where he lived and worked for seven years alongside Constantin Brâncusi, Jean Tinguely and Jean Dubuffet, whilst deepening his practice at the École des Beaux-Arts. There he developed “New Figuration” – paintings crammed with shapes and mythological images in thick, colorful and intoxicating layers of paint. In 1958 he exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and was voted one of the top twenty young artists in Europe, which earned him a Young Artist Award in Israel. Following this exhibition Tamir was invited to paint monumental frescoes in Chicago and Mexico City. Between 1956 and 1986, he was invited to present four exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels that included a joint exhibition with Pablo Picasso. With newspapers headlines declaring him a “Renaissance Man”, the opening of the 1986 exhibition hosted many important guests, among which were King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola, the Belgian Prime Minister, ministers of the Belgian Parliament and heads of the European community. Tamir won First Prize for lithography at the Sao Paulo Biennale, his work remaining on permanent display at the Rio de Janeiro Museum. AWARDS: 1947 Award of Bezalel's Struck prize 1949 "young Israeli Artists", Tel Aviv Artist's House, winning an award for his painting "Wounded Amnon" Chosen among the 20 best young artists in Europe participating in the Exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris 1961 First prize of the Museum of Rio de Janeiro for his graphic work at the Biennale of São Paulo, Brazil 1961 Director of "New Bezalel", Jerusalem 1963 National inspector of the Art Studies, and Art Advisor to the Minister of Culture and Education in Jerusalem 1980 Interior planning and fresco paintings at the Convention Hall (Palazzo Vecchio) COLLECTIONS: Moshe Tamir Collection at Presler Private Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel "Wounded Amnon" Fresco, collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Museums of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Ein Harod, Israel Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Amsterdam, Bogota, Caracas, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia. Denver Art Museum, State Museum of Belgium, SA Private Collection of the Queen Mother of Belgium and many private collections in Israel, Europe, America, South America and Canada