Details
• Year: 2024
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 70 × 100 cm
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
💡 Artwork Inquiry: This original painting is currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries, pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.
Details
• Year: 2023
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 70 × 100 cm
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
💡 Artwork Inquiry: This original painting is currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries, pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.
Details
• Year: 2023
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions:
Provenance
Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
💡 Artwork Inquiry: This original painting is currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries, pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.
Details
• Year: 2023
• Medium: Oil on canvas
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
💡 Artwork Inquiry: This original painting is currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries, pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.
Details
• Year: 2022
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 100 × 100 cm
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
💡 Artwork Inquiry: This original painting is currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries, pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.
1988
Details
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 157.5 × 142 cm
Exhibition History
Exhibition of Israeli Artists, Stephen S. Wise Center, Los Angeles, USA (1989)
Family Album Series, Netanya, Israel (2006 & 2026)
Provenance
Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
💡 Artwork Inquiry: This original painting is currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries, pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.
About the Artworks
This magnificent seven-piece portfolio captures the sacred, timeless architecture and spiritual energy of Old Jerusalem. Rendered using the intricate drypoint etching technique, the artist utilizes deep, velvety blacks and feathered lines to bring out the textures of ancient stone walls, historic archways, and holy vistas. Each print in this series serves as a powerful testament to the city’s layered history, blending structural realism with an atmospheric, spiritual depth.
Details
Year: 2009
Medium: Original Drypoint Etching (Сухая игла)
Quantity: Set of 7 artworks
Dimensions: 59 × 40 cm (each)
Provenance
Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
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These original graphic works are currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries regarding the complete seven-piece series, portfolio pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.
Details
Year: 2006
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 × 50 cm
Provenance
Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
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About the Painting
"Past Forward" explores the tension between memory and modernity. The dark, weathered village house anchors the piece in the nostalgia of the artist's childhood home. Above it, the night sky breaks into a sharp, contemporary geometric composition dominated by a stark white grid. This striking contrast juxtaposes the organic weight of the past against the calculated progression of the future, capturing a soul suspended between its origins and what lies ahead.
Details
Year: 2020
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 120 × 80 cm
Provenance
Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
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Details
• Year: 1993
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 130 × 120 cm
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
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"Iceberg" (2002) is a visually arresting masterwork that showcases Joseph Kapelyan’s intricate approach to surface textures and emotional color theory. Combining structured oil on canvas with a meticulous mixed media collage technique on a substantial 90x70cm layout, this piece centers on a powerful architectural concept. The composition establishes a dramatic, high-energy contrast between frozen white structures and fields of vibrant, radiant red, layering physical materials to form a captivating, multi-dimensional abstract reality.
Details
• Year: 2002
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 90 × 70 cm
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
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Details
• Year: 1990
• Medium: Acrylic on canvas
• Dimensions: 131 × 102 cm
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
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Details
• Year: 1990
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 148 × 106 cm
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
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Details
• Year: 1990
• Medium: Acrylic on canvas
• Dimensions: 102 × 100 cm
Provenance
• Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
💡 Artwork Inquiry: This original painting is currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries, pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.
1987
Details
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 128 × 108 cm
About the Work
This piece belongs to Joseph Kapelyan’s prominent Family Album collection, which first debuted at the Safrai Gallery in Tel Aviv (1987) and was later showcased at the Stephen S. Wise Arts Center in Los Angeles (1989). The composition depicts a woman standing over her seated husband, placing her hand on his shoulder with care and love to symbolize strong family ties. The posture highlights the husband as a statue of solidity and status within the household of that era. In reviewing the Family Album collection, art critic M. Zaborov famously coined the term "Daguerreo-Romanticism" to describe its unique aesthetic—fusing the moody, nostalgic atmosphere of vintage photography with the deep emotional resonance of Romanticism.
Exhibition History
Family Album, Safrai Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (1987)
Exhibition of Israeli Artists, Stephen S. Wise Center, Los Angeles, USA (1989)
Family Album Series, Netanya, Israel (2006 & 2026)
Provenance
Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
💡 Artwork Inquiry: This original painting is currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries, pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.
1990
Details
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 130 × 106 cm
About the Work
This piece belongs to Joseph Kapelyan’s prominent Family Album collection, which first debuted at the Safrai Gallery in Tel Aviv (1987) and was later showcased at the Stephen S. Wise Arts Center in Los Angeles (1989). The composition immediately transports the viewer to the early 20th century, featuring a finely dressed eleven-year-old schoolboy getting ready for a recitation, who nervously holds a book in his white-gloved hand and a hat in the other; while the canvas is rendered to simulate a vintage black-and-white photograph, the artist breaks the tension with a flash of humor, placing a vibrant yellow ball on the side table. In reviewing the Family Album collection, art critic M. Zaborov famously coined the term "Daguerreo-Romanticism" to describe its unique aesthetic—fusing the moody, nostalgic atmosphere of vintage photography with the deep emotional resonance of Romanticism. This particular artwork stands as one of the later creations within this evolutionary cycle, subsequently included in the Netanya exhibitions of 2006 and 2026.
Exhibition History
Exhibition of Sa Nur Artists, Sa Nur Gallery, Samaria
Family Album Series Retrospective, Netanya, Israel (2006 & 2026)
Literature
Or, Miriam. Joseph Kapelyan: Art, Reality and Mysticism. Israel: Publishing House Master Garden, 1999, p. 335.
Provenance
Artist’s Private Collection, Israel
💡 Artwork Inquiry: This original painting is currently held within the artist's private estate. For acquisition inquiries, pricing, and secure global courier shipping arrangements from Israel, please contact the curators at Art Lombard at info@artlombard.com.