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Joseph Zaritsky

Born : 1891Died : 1985Documented citizenships : Israel

Joseph Zaritsky (1891–1985), an Israeli painter born in Ukraine, studied in Kyiv before settling in Mandate Palestine in 1923. His watercolours of Safed, Tiberias and Jerusalem during the 1920s use landscape as the starting point for an approach that moves towards abstraction. In 1948 he helped establish New Horizons, a group promoting modern Israeli art.

Tamarisk and Figures in Tel Aviv, about 1930, in the Jewish Museum, New York, combines watercolour and pencil on paper. Zichron Ya’akov, painted in 1939 and held by the High Museum, also exemplifies his practice of landscape watercolour. In 1955 the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presented his work alongside that of Indonesian painter Rusli, in separate solo exhibitions brought together by Willem Sandberg within the programme 5 generaties.

This profile brings together identity references for Joseph Zaritsky and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

1auction reference

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1documented result with a price

Dobiaschofsky

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Works recorded at auction

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Dobiaschofsky · Lot 2549

"View from the Rooftop".

Watercolour and pencil

Original catalogue wording

"View from the Rooftop".
Aquarell und Bleistift

Catalogue period : 2021-05-08

Published result : 300 CHF

Fees not specified in the available data

Estimate : CHF 600

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Sources and references

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Profile updated : 2026-10-22