watercolor on paper, signed
paper size 35x50 cm
 
David Hendler (1904 – May 2, 1984) was an Israeli painter, winner of the Dizengoff Prize for painting. He was called "The painter of Tel Aviv".
 
Hendler was a painter with a delicate sense of color, and his drawings, made with a fingernail and sometimes accented with a few water stains, were common in Tel Aviv and other cities. He would finish a painting in a few minutes.
 
The main motifs in his paintings were workers, horses and other working animals, the old Tel Aviv houses, and the Tel Aviv promenade. His nude paintings showed the influence of Henri Matisse.
 
Hendler's works constitute one of the most faithful and humane records of the beginning of the Zionist revival in the Land of Israel. Hendler also had a great influence on the field of drawing in Israel, and his influence is evident in the works of Aryeh Navon, Avigdor Steimatzky, Aviva Uri and others.