Modern art: A Brass Etrog Holder. An Original Monumental work by the Important artist Zelig Segal.

Modern art: A Brass Etrog Holder. An Original Monumental work by the Important artist Zelig Segal.

In this piece Segal presents a unique and creative version of a traditional item for Sukkot. Unusual in both its design and treatment of material, the etrog holder presents clean forms and an aesthetically interesting play of light and shadow.

"Segal's ingenuity knows no bounds. His works consistently surprise us with their formal and functional inventiveness."  These words emphasize and strengthen Selig Segal's being an exceptionally innovative creator.

"Who is Zelig Segal? A man of contrasts: because Zelig Segal is an inventor, a man who plays freely, who is strict with himself in the reduction of form and matter. Zelig Segal is, at the same time, a visual rationalist...He is an artist who simultaneously seeks unity and division, permanence, and variability. But, above all, Zelig Segal is an artist enslaved to beauty, a creator who conveys in his designs the three classic principles of beauty – harmony in multiplicity, harmony of the sensory and the intellect and harmony of the infinite. " (Art Researcher, Gidon Efrat)

Zelig Segal: Israeli designer, painter, sculptor, and Judaica artist.

Zelig was born in Jerusalem in 1933 and grew up in the Beit Israel neighborhood. His mother was the midwife of the community in Hebron and his father used to teach in the Talmud Torah 'Etz Chaim' in the Mazkeret Moshe neighborhood. At the age of 16, with the help of a scholarship he received from David Ben-Gurion, Segal began studying at the Bezalel Academy of Design. From 1949-1954 he studied in the Department of Metals, specializing in metal sculpture and design. Segal passed away in 2015.

Height: 9 cm. Diam: 12 cm. 145 gr. Signed.