Artist: Shmuel Tepler (1918–1998)
Technique: Silkscreen (Serigraph), hand-signed and numbered
Edition: 99/275
Dimensions: 40x45 cm (Image size, framed)
Status: Professionally framed in a silver metallic frame
About the Artwork:
This original silkscreen print by acclaimed Israeli artist Shmuel Tepler features an abstract still-life composition centered around a stylized blue vase with flowers. Rendered in Tepler's iconic mid-century modern style, the piece is characterized by flat color planes, structural abstraction, and a refined color harmony of warm ochre, muted grey, light blue, and vivid green accents. The artwork perfectly translates his painterly oil brushstrokes into a high-quality graphic medium. It is hand-signed by the artist in pencil along the bottom right, numbered 99/275 on the bottom left, and housed in a contemporary silver frame.
About the Artist:
Shmuel Tepler (1918–1998): A highly regarded Polish-born Israeli modernist painter who survived WWII in the USSR before studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy. He immigrated to Israel in 1949.
Artistic Style: Known for his masterfully composed still lifes, interiors, and landscapes that blend formal abstraction, heavy texturing, and expressive color field surfaces inspired by Italian lyrical abstraction.
Affiliations: Prominent member and committee leader of the Israel Painters and Sculptors Association during the 1950s and 1960s based in Old Jaffa.
Awards: Internationally recognized, receiving the UNESCO Medal of Honor (1974) and the prestigious Italian Prize for Art (1975).