Amulet for a Yellow Landscape
1966 · Oil and tempera on canvas
38 1/8 x 50 3/4" (96.8 x 128.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Mordecai Ardon
Israeli, 1896
Tuchów, Poland
PaintingBauhausSurrealismRealism
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3
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3
Works in Collection
8
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4
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- • Bauhaus
- • Surrealism
- • Realism
- • Constructivism
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952
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Bauhaus: 1919�1928
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938–1939
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Mordecai Ardon was an Israeli painter and printmaker whose expressive abstractions emerged from figurative roots in interwar Europe. Born in Poland in 1896, he immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and became a central figure in the development of modern Israeli art, teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem for decades. His work combined elements of Constructivism and Surrealism with a distinctly Middle Eastern sensibility, employing bold color and gestural mark-making to explore themes of memory, spirituality, and place. He remained a dominant artistic presence throughout the twentieth century.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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