Poetry of Canaan, I
1963 · Mixed mediums on canvas
64 x 51 3/8" (162.4 x 130.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Moshe Elazar Castel
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Recent Acquisitions: South Asian Painting
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Moshe Elazar Castel was an Israeli painter and muralist whose work synthesized abstraction with Hebrew calligraphy and Jewish mystical symbolism. Active from the 1930s onward, he developed a distinctive visual language that merged modernist geometric forms with religious and textual imagery, treating letterforms and numeric sequences as both linguistic and abstract compositional elements. His large-scale murals and paintings engaged directly with questions of Jewish identity and spiritual renewal in the postwar period.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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