“Yellow Landscape II,” Yigal Zemer (b.1942), 1972 embossed intaglio aquatint, 22×15 in., pencil signed, titled and numbered 45/50.

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“Yellow Landscape II,” Yigal Zemer (b.1942), 1972 embossed intaglio aquatint, 22×15 in., pencil signed, titled and numbered 45/50.

Yigal Zemer’s Yellow Landscape II (1972) is a rare embossed intaglio aquatint from his early architectural abstraction period, merging sculptural embossing with minimalist color. Signed, titled, and numbered 45/50, the work exemplifies Zemer’s internationally recognized mastery of inkless relief, precise geometry, and spatial harmony. A key piece for collectors of Israeli modernism, abstract printmaking, and 1970s geometric art.

Artwork Description

Yellow Landscape II distills landscape into its most essential structural elements: horizontal motion, spatial tension, and the architecture of light. Zemer constructs the composition using deep inkless embossing, producing a raised triangular form and geometric recesses that cast shifting shadows across the sheet.

Two horizontal bands of saturated yellow traverse the composition, functioning as both horizon and energy line. These subtle injections of color contrast with the stark white embossing, reinforcing Zemer’s architectural approach to printmaking.

Created in 1972, during his printmaking studies at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York City, the work demonstrates Zemer’s dual identity as architect and artist. It belongs to a small series of embossed landscapes in which the “landscape” becomes a field of spatial relationships rather than a literal scene.

Hand-signed, titled, dated, and editioned 45/50 in pencil, this piece embodies Zemer’s signature practice of sculptural printmaking: pure form, minimal intervention, and precision craftsmanship.

Artist Biography — Yigal Zemer

Yigal Zemer (b.1942, Israel) is a leading Israeli painter, printmaker, sculptor, and environmental artist whose practice spans six decades. Trained at the Avni Institute (Tel Aviv, 1959), he was influenced by the New Horizons movement and by Israel’s early modernist aesthetic.

Zemer relocated to the United States in the late 1960s, where he studied advanced intaglio at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York City, simultaneously completing a Bachelor of Architecture. His architectural training deeply informs his artwork, which uses geometry, structure, and spatial reduction as primary languages.

His embossed intaglio works from the early 1970s — including Yellow Landscape II — are considered foundational, demonstrating his innovation with inkless relief, sculptural surface, and geometric abstraction.

Collections include:
Israel Museum • Tel Aviv Museum • Haifa Museum of Modern Art • Library of Congress • NY Public Library • Minneapolis Institute of Art • RCA Collection • IBM Collection • Rockefeller Collection • Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris) • and major Israeli corporate and municipal collections.

Exhibitions include:
Horace Richter Gallery (Jaffa, 2006) • Neli Amen (Tel Aviv, 1991) • Robinson Gallery (NYC, 1989) • Goldman Gallery (Haifa, 1985) • Engel Gallery (Tel Aviv, 1983) • Ou Canard (Basel, 1979) • Mabat Gallery (1974) • Tel Aviv Museum Biennials (1973, 1975) • Paris Print Biennale (1973) • Israel Museum (2006) …and many more.

Public works:
Zemer has created sculptural installations and sundials across Israel including Jerusalem, Ramat Gan, Netivot, Shtula Junction, Beit Shean, and Raanana — each blending architecture, geometry, and natural light.

Today, Zemer is regarded as one of Israel’s foremost multidisciplinary modernists.

Yigal Zemer (b.1942), Yellow Landscape II, 1972. Embossed intaglio aquatint, 22×15 in., pencil signed, titled, dated, and numbered 45/50. Strong relief embossing with minimalist yellow bands and geometric architectural forms. Rare low edition of 50. Excellent condition.

ARTFIND GALLERY — CERTIFICATE OF VALUE & AUTHENTICATION

Artist: Yigal Zemer (b. 1942)
Title: Yellow Landscape II
Year: 1972
Medium: Embossed Intaglio Aquatint
Dimensions: 22 × 15 inches
Edition: 45/50
Signature: Pencil signed, titled, and dated
Condition: Excellent; strong embossing, clean sheet, no fading or foxing
Notes: Rare early Pratt-period print with sculptural inkless embossing.

Provenance Chain

  1. Artist’s Studio, 1972

  2. Original Dealer or Printer

  3. Private Collector, NYC

  4. Artfind Gallery, Washington DC (Current Owner)

“Yellow Landscape II,” Yigal Zemer (b.1942), 1972 embossed intaglio aquatint, 22×15 in., pencil signed, titled and numbered 45/50.

Yigal Zemer’s Yellow Landscape II (1972) is a rare embossed intaglio aquatint from his early architectural abstraction period, merging sculptural embossing with minimalist color. Signed, titled, and numbered 45/50, the work exemplifies Zemer’s internationally recognized mastery of inkless relief, precise geometry, and spatial harmony. A key piece for collectors of Israeli modernism, abstract printmaking, and 1970s geometric art.

Artwork Description

Yellow Landscape II distills landscape into its most essential structural elements: horizontal motion, spatial tension, and the architecture of light. Zemer constructs the composition using deep inkless embossing, producing a raised triangular form and geometric recesses that cast shifting shadows across the sheet.

Two horizontal bands of saturated yellow traverse the composition, functioning as both horizon and energy line. These subtle injections of color contrast with the stark white embossing, reinforcing Zemer’s architectural approach to printmaking.

Created in 1972, during his printmaking studies at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York City, the work demonstrates Zemer’s dual identity as architect and artist. It belongs to a small series of embossed landscapes in which the “landscape” becomes a field of spatial relationships rather than a literal scene.

Hand-signed, titled, dated, and editioned 45/50 in pencil, this piece embodies Zemer’s signature practice of sculptural printmaking: pure form, minimal intervention, and precision craftsmanship.

Artist Biography — Yigal Zemer

Yigal Zemer (b.1942, Israel) is a leading Israeli painter, printmaker, sculptor, and environmental artist whose practice spans six decades. Trained at the Avni Institute (Tel Aviv, 1959), he was influenced by the New Horizons movement and by Israel’s early modernist aesthetic.

Zemer relocated to the United States in the late 1960s, where he studied advanced intaglio at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York City, simultaneously completing a Bachelor of Architecture. His architectural training deeply informs his artwork, which uses geometry, structure, and spatial reduction as primary languages.

His embossed intaglio works from the early 1970s — including Yellow Landscape II — are considered foundational, demonstrating his innovation with inkless relief, sculptural surface, and geometric abstraction.

Collections include:
Israel Museum • Tel Aviv Museum • Haifa Museum of Modern Art • Library of Congress • NY Public Library • Minneapolis Institute of Art • RCA Collection • IBM Collection • Rockefeller Collection • Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris) • and major Israeli corporate and municipal collections.

Exhibitions include:
Horace Richter Gallery (Jaffa, 2006) • Neli Amen (Tel Aviv, 1991) • Robinson Gallery (NYC, 1989) • Goldman Gallery (Haifa, 1985) • Engel Gallery (Tel Aviv, 1983) • Ou Canard (Basel, 1979) • Mabat Gallery (1974) • Tel Aviv Museum Biennials (1973, 1975) • Paris Print Biennale (1973) • Israel Museum (2006) …and many more.

Public works:
Zemer has created sculptural installations and sundials across Israel including Jerusalem, Ramat Gan, Netivot, Shtula Junction, Beit Shean, and Raanana — each blending architecture, geometry, and natural light.

Today, Zemer is regarded as one of Israel’s foremost multidisciplinary modernists.

Yigal Zemer (b.1942), Yellow Landscape II, 1972. Embossed intaglio aquatint, 22×15 in., pencil signed, titled, dated, and numbered 45/50. Strong relief embossing with minimalist yellow bands and geometric architectural forms. Rare low edition of 50. Excellent condition.

ARTFIND GALLERY — CERTIFICATE OF VALUE & AUTHENTICATION

Artist: Yigal Zemer (b. 1942)
Title: Yellow Landscape II
Year: 1972
Medium: Embossed Intaglio Aquatint
Dimensions: 22 × 15 inches
Edition: 45/50
Signature: Pencil signed, titled, and dated
Condition: Excellent; strong embossing, clean sheet, no fading or foxing
Notes: Rare early Pratt-period print with sculptural inkless embossing.

Provenance Chain

  1. Artist’s Studio, 1972

  2. Original Dealer or Printer

  3. Private Collector, NYC

  4. Artfind Gallery, Washington DC (Current Owner)

"YELLOW LANDSCAPE II" -YIGAL ZEMER -Embossed Intaglio Aquatint -Signed & Numbered -45/50

22 X 15”

Yigal Zemer: A highly regarded and important contemporary Israeli painter, sculptor and printmaker. Yigal Zemer first studied art in his native country (1959) at the Avni Institute, Tel Aviv. He studied printmaking techniques at the Pratt graphic center, N.Y.C where he obtained his bachelor of architecture. Yemer’s art is included in many well known institutions, and has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally.

Original Intaglio Etching with Aquatint created by the Israeli artist in 1972 and published in a limited edition of 50 impressions. It is signed, titled, dated and numbered, “45/50”, by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. “This complex work of art employs extensive embossing (much of it inkless) throughout the composition. As in many of Yigal Zemer’s original prints and painting, sculptural concerns thus come to the forefront.”

Yemer’s art is included in many well known institutions, including: the Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum, the Minneapolis Museum, the Library of Congress Washington D.C, the N.Y.C public library, the R.C.A. collection, the Chase Manhattan bank collection, the I.B.M. collection, the Rockefeller collection, the San Francisco Museum, The Bibliotheque National, Paris, The Dubi Shiff Art Collection, Israel and many more.

Yigal Zemer's art has been exhibited throughout his native country as well as internationally in countries such as Isreal, Switzerland, France and the United States. A partial list of his one man shows is; (2006) the Horace Richer Gallery, Jaffa (Tel Aviv), Israel, (1991) the Neli Amen, Tel Aviv, (1989) the Robinson Gallery, N.Y.C, (1985) the Goldman Gallery, Haifa, (1983) the Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv, (1979) the 0u Canard gallery, Basel, Switzerland and in (1974) the Mabat gallery, Tel Aviv. He has also had many group exhibitions, again a partial list is; (1973) "the graphic art in Israel", Tel Aviv museum, (1973) The 3rd Biennale for prints, Paris, (1975) "the graphic art in Israel" Graphotec, Berlin, (1980) "White on white" Haifa museum, (20090 10+ Tel Aviv Museum, (2002) "Architects Create Art" City Gallery, Jerusalem, Curator, T. Grinberg, (2006) "Shadows" Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Curator, A. Fridman, and (2007) "10+" Tel Aviv Museum, Curator, B. Kalev.

A partial list of Yigal Zemer's outdoor sculptures and sundials are located in public places in Isreal such as; Ramat Gan, Ramot, Jerusalem, Netivot, Shtula's junction, Plaza hotel, Jerusalem, Sculptural stone wall, Yad Rachel, Jerusalem, sculptural wall, youth hostel, Beit Shan, Mevot Yam and Sundial in Ranana.

Reference: https://www.artoftheprint.com

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