French born collector, Simon Nahmani is a well-established young entrepreneur working in France and Israel. Educated in a culture well rooted in art-history and collecting, Nahmani established himself during the last 4 to 5 years as a young and serious collector of Contemporary Israeli art. Over this short period he built up a well thought out abstract collection of both established and upcoming artists. Belonging to 3 generations of abstract art, the collection’s back bone comprises - one artist from the founder generation of Israeli abstract art, Moshe Kupferman - a mid-generation conceptual artist Michal Neeman and two artists from the younger generation Sharon Poliakine and Alex Kremer. These form a well knotted group that have in common their search for a unique individual style, but if seen in unison are proof of the rich abstract culture that was created here since the creation of Israel. All the works on auction were exhibited in the major shows for these artists either in the Tel-Aviv or Jerusalem Museums or in their respective galleries. Michal Naaman (born 1951) is a teacher of art in the Bezalel Accademy of Art in Jerusalem. She lives and works in Tel-Aviv. For the last 3 decades Naaman has been an exponent of a unique idom that infused in Israeli art a new vain which deals with linguistic, psychoanalytic and literary contents. In 1980 she exhibited in New-York at the Bertha Urdang Gallery. In 1982 she represented Israel in the Venice Biennale and in 1983 had a first solo exhibition in the Tel-Aviv Museum of art. Her works are located in all of the important Museums in Israel and in the major collections. Sharon Poliakine (born 1964) is the Head of Department of Art in the University of Haifa. She lives and works in Ra'anana. Her semi-abstract art in which she combines different materials mostly from nature and dialogues with various traditions has received wide appraisal. She had one man exhibitions in the Tel-Aviv Museum in 2011 and in the Ashdod Art Museum in 2012. Her paintings are in the New-York Public Library and in British Museum, London as well as in the major Israeli collections. Alex Kremer (born 1966) is a teacher of art in the Bezalel Accademy of Art in Jerusalem. He lives and works in Tel-Aviv. An expressionist artist, he is considered one of the most important avant-garde artists of the younger generation. His works were heralded by the famous Gordon Gallery and have been exhibited in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv Museums.
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