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NATHAN (NATHSKY-KPELLAN) (APRIL 1, 1918 - MAY 20, 2005), WHO WAS ONLY KNOWN FOR HER PRIVATE NAME, WAS AN ISRAELI PAINTER.

BIOGRAPHY
NATHAN WAS BORN IN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, TO WHICH HER FATHER, DR. MALMÖ LEVENTIN, WAS BORN AT THE FOOT OF HIS ROLE AS A DOCTOR OF THE ZIONIST BRIGADES. NATHAN WAS NAMED AFTER HER GRANDMOTHER, FATHER OF HER MOTHER, NATHAN DUNAEVICH. HER GRANDFATHER, FATHER OF HER FATHER, IS ZELMAN DAVID LIVIN. BEING A BABY IN 1919, WHERE HER PARENTS RETURNED TO ISRAEL AND SETTLED IN TEL AVIV, WHERE SHE STUDIED IN 1935-1923 IN HER MANSIA HERZLIYA.

IN 1936, SHE STUDIED SECRETARY AND MANAGEMENT IN LONDON, AND RETURNED TO ISRAEL IN 1938. SHE MARRIED BUDDY, WITH WHOM SHE LIVED IN CYPRUS, BUT IN 1940, FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II RETURNED TO TEL AVIV, WHERE HER SON DAVID WAS BORN. THEN SHE SEPARATED FROM HER HUSBAND. IN 1942 SHE MARRIED LYDIA MORISSSSS OF THE ENGINEER GERAN DOISHSKY, AND IN 1948 SHE WAS BORN TO LIGHT. IN 1954, HER HUSBAND DIED AT A YOUNG AGE. HER YOUNGER BROTHER IS THE JURIST PROF. AVIGDOR LEBTIN.

ART OF ART
SHE BEGAN TO DRAW LATE AFTER SHE MARRIED TWICE AND AFTER GIVING TWO CHILDREN. IN 1955, AFTER THE DEATH OF HER SECOND HUSBAND, SHE BEGAN HER ARTISTIC WAY IN INTERIOR DESIGN AT THE PARSONS DESIGN SCHOOL IN NEW YORK. IN 1957, DR. MICHAEL KAPLAN MARRIED DR. MICHAEL KAPLAN, AND A YEAR LATER HE BEGAN TO STUDY A PAINTING FOR GOOD RICHTER. FROM 1959 TO 1960, SHE ATTENDED MINA ZISELMAN, AND LATER IN 1962–1963 STUDIED AT THE TEL AVIV INSTITUTE. AMONG HER TEACHERS WERE EZEKIEL STEINCHMAN AND AVIGDOR STEIMSKY. SINCE SHE HAS BEEN SHOWN TO TOUR, DRAW AND DISPLAY GALLERIES AND VARIOUS ART CENTERS IN ISRAEL AND ABROAD, AND OCCASIONALLY HAS EXPERIENCED PROLONGED PERIODS IN LONDON AND PARIS.

AS A STUDENT OF STRAYCHMAN AND STAMSKY, THE NAME OF NATHAN WAS ASSOCIATED WITH "NEW HORIZONS", AND IT COMBINED THE ISRAELI LIGHT AND COLOR CHARACTERIZED BY THIS STYLE, ALONG WITH THE EUROPEAN STYLE OF SOFTER LIGHT, AND OF AN ORGANIZATION AND RESTRAINT. SHE HAS DEVELOPED HER OWN PERSONAL STYLE – LANDSCAPES AND EXPRESSIVE PORTRAITS, WHICH HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY ABSTRACT, WITH POWERFUL BLUE AND POLISHED SILKS AND VIVID COLORS AND STRONG ON VERY LARGE FABRICS. NATHAN WAS A VERY VIGOROUS PAINTER WHO HAD PAINTED COLORS IN THE CANVAS, AND PAINTED ONLY STANDING, TO GAIN THE INTENSITY AND SOFTNESS. SEVERAL CRITICS CALLED THE STYLE " MASCULINE", AND WERE SURPRISED BY THE PROMINENT CONTRAST BETWEEN ITS FRAGILE AND ELEGANT CHARACTER, AND ITS GREAT PAINTINGS AND BOTS. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER ELDEST SON DADI, IN 1996, HER PAINTINGS BECAME MORE ABSTRACT AND SPIRITUAL.

NATHAN WAS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATIONS OF PAINTERS IN ISRAEL, PARIS AND LONDON, AND CONTINUED TO PRESENT IMPORTANT GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ALSO IN SINGLE EXHIBITIONS IN ISRAEL AND ABROAD, AND TO WIN PRAISE AND AWARDS. ITS WORKS ARE IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN ISRAEL AND ABROAD, INCLUDING IN THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART, IN THE BUILDING OF THE JEWISH AGENCY, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, THE HISTADRUT HOUSE, THE BIBLE HOUSE, AND THE BUILDING OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

SHE DIED IN HER HOUSE IN TEL AVIV. BURIED IN THE CEMETERY OF MISS SAUL.

SINGLE EXHIBITIONS

IN 1965, HE PRESENTED A FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE CHIMERINSKI GALLERY IN TEL AVIV. SINCE THEN, SHE HAS PARTICIPATED IN MANY EXHIBITIONS, ESPECIALLY ABROAD.

IN 1988, A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION WAS HELD IN THE TABERNACLE OF ART IN HOLON, AND THE CURATOR WAS THE PAINTER EZEKIEL SHYICHMAN, WHO ALSO CARRIED THE OPENING WORDS.

IN 2001 SHE PRESENTED AT THE ARTISTS' HOUSE IN TEL AVIV, AN EXHIBITION FROM HER DIVERSE WORKS THAT SHE PAINTED IN ISRAEL AND ABROAD, AND ACCORDINGLY THE EXHIBITION "BETWEEN THE EIN KARIM AND PARIS." THE CURATOR WAS PROF. BLES, WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY STUDIED THE CREATION OF A NICHE, AND IN 2000 PUBLISHED A BOOK NAMED NATHAN KAPLAN.

PRIZES
PRAISE FOR THE PICTURE "MY PORTRAIT" IN THE PORTRAIT CONTEST OF PORTRAITS NAMED PAUL-LOUIS WEILER BY THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, PARIS (1979).
CERTIFICATE AND BRONZE MEDAL BY THE PEPSIA ACADEMIC INSTITUTE