Hananiah Harari

American, 1912 - 2000

Hananiah Harari was born in Rochester, NY in 1912 as Richard Falk Goldman. After a 1935 trip to Palestine, he changed his name to ’Hananiah Harari’…”A name better suited to an important artist”. Hananiah Harari became best recognized for his unique style of Modern painting that integrated the concepts of Cubism with Surrealism. He studied at the Syracuse University School of Art and later in Paris with André Lhote, Fernand Léger and Marcel Gromaire. In New York in 1936, Harari became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group. Harari regularly exhibited nationally at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. In 1943, he exhibited at the landmark “American Realists and Magic Realists” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the important traveling exhibition, “Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States” organized by the San Francisco Art Museum. In addition to his success with Modern Abstraction, Harari painted portrait commissions for Portraits Inc. in New York, including such notable families as the Kennedy’s, Rockefeller’s, Mellon’s and DuPont’s. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, among others. Harari died in 2000 at the age of 88.

Rococo, 1942

Oil on canvas

38 x 30 inches

Signed and dated Harari '42 lower right; signed, titled and dated on reverse.

#6576
Perilous Sky, 1947

Oil on canvas

36 x 30 inches

Signed Harari lower right; titled on reverse.

#492
The Baroque Portal, 1942

Colored pencil, ink and collage on paper

7 x 8 3/4 inches

Signed and dated Harari 42 lower left; titled and dated on reverse.

#6606
Wings, 1947

Ink, wash and crayon on paper

4 x 5 inches

Signed and dated Harari ‘47 lower left

#11122
Wings, 1947

Ink, wash and crayon on paper

4 x 5 inches

Signed and dated Harari ‘47 lower right

#11123
The Fruits of Order, 1942

Gouache, ink and collage on paper

6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Harari 42, upper right; signed, titled and dated on reverse.

#6603
Untitled (Abstraction), 1948

Watercolor and pastel on paper

8 3/4 x 7 inches

Signed and dated Harari 48, lower right.

#6604
To the Wind, 1937

Colored pencil and graphite on paper

6 x 4 1/2 inches

Signed with initials and dated H.H. 37 lower right.

#6581
Signal Set Up, 1937

Colored pencil on paper

6 x 4 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Harari 37 lower left.

#6582
Overseas, 1940

Graphite on paper

5 x 7 inches

Signed with initials and dated H.H. 40 upper right.

#6584
The Military, 1937

Ink and colored pencil on paper

4 1/2 x 6 inches

Signed and dated Harari 37 lower left; titled and dated on reverse.

#6596
The Military, 1937

Ink and colored pencil on paper

4 1/2 x 6 inches

Signed and dated Harari 37 upper left.

#6597
Flash Watch, 1940

Graphite on paper

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches

Signed with initials and dated H.H. 40 upper left.

#6583
The Art Exhibit, 1949

Ink on paper

7 x 8 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Harari 49, lower right; signed, titled and dated on reverse.

#6586
Untitled, 1938

Charcoal on paper

19 x 25 inches

Signed and dated Harari 38 lower left.

#6599
Untitled (Steam Engine), 1939

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Harari 39 lower right.

#6587
Untitled (Train Signals), 1939

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Harari 39 lower right.

#6588
Untitled , ca. 1945

Ink on paper

12 x 9 inches

#6610
Airship & Boat Forms, 1942

Graphite on paper

5 x 6 1/2 inches

Signed with initials and dated H.H. 42, lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse.

#6612
Image Study, 1947

Graphite on paper

4 x 6 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Harari 47 lower right; titled lower left.

#6609
Untitled (Figure Abstract), 1936

Graphite on paper

5 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches

Signed with initials and dated H.H. 36 upper left.

#6615
Counterweights, 1948

Graphite on paper

5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches

Signed and dated Harari 48 lower right; titled and dated on reverse.

#6613
Sky Traffic, 1947

Graphite on paper

6 1/4 x 5 inches

Signed and dated Harari ‘47, lower right; titled lower left.

#6621
Untitled (Ladder Forms), 1936

Graphite on paper

6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches

Signed with initials and dated H.H. 36 lower left.

#6614
Flighty Skies, 1947

Graphite on paper

5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Harari 47 lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse.

#6611
Man and Sky, 1947

Ink and colored pencil on paper

9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches

Signed and dated Harari 47, lower right; signed, titled and dated on reverse.

#6617
Magnetic Prisms, 1948

Graphite on paper

6 1/2 x 8 inches

Signed and dated Harari 48, lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse.

#6601
The Way of Scrutiny, 1947

Graphite on paper

4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches

Signed and dated Harari 47 lower right; titled lower left.

#224
Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1940s

Graphite on paper

12 x 9 inches

Signed Harari, lower right.

#223
Les trois graces, 1934

Watercolor and ink on paper

8 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Harari 34 upper left; titled on reverse.

#6608

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