print, 65x91.5 cm, signed with pencil
 
 
Menashe Kadishman (1932 -2015, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli sculptor and painter.
His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style, and so designed as to appear to defy gravity.
In his youth, between 1950 and 1953, Kadishman worked as a shepherd on Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch. This experience with nature, sheep and shepherding had a significant impact on his later artistic work and career.
In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different from the next.
These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic "trademark".