Signed in pigment lower right. 

Date: 2008

Registration Number: A8073.0000

Provenance: Park West appraisal, Park West Certificate of Authenticity, held in private collection in Texas, USA. 

Image: 39 1/2" Tall x 31 1/2" Wide 

Frame: 52" Tall x 44" Wide

Condition: The canvas is loose in the frame with some warping. Minor marks to the frame. Please see images for details. 

Artist Bio: David Najar (b. 1962) was born in Israel into a family with no painters and no paintings at home, and he has described how little encouragement there was for an artist's life. His teachers recognized the talent early, and he went on to study with the Lithuanian born artist Moshe Rosenthalis. In 2003 he met the painter Itzchak Tarkay, and for about five years the two shared a studio, an association Najar credits with pushing him to keep developing rather than settle into a formula.

Najar paints landscapes in a manner usually described as Contemporary Expressionism, working in heavy impasto with rubber brushes and choosing his color by instinct. His fields, trees and still water are rarely real places. He combines fragments of observed scenery with invented ones, and his favorite motifs, poppy fields, single trees, reflections and the turn of the seasons, recur across his work as something closer to meditation than description. He has spoken of nature as the place where he feels nearest to God, and he paints in a building near Tel Aviv built a century before Israel became a state. "Boulder and Poppies" sets a boulder among the poppy fields that run through so much of his work.