About the artist:

Hanna Ben Dov was an abstract painter born in Palestine in 1919.

Ben Dov's father, Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, was a famous Zionist Ukrainian photographer who founded the photography department in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1910. Hannah herself attended Bezalel during the 1940s, and later continued to Camberwell College of Arts in London. After the completion of her formal education she moved to Paris, where she exhibited for the first time in 1948 and has been living and working there since, as a part of the local abstract artists school. She took part in the first French Biennale of 1951, that was held in Menton.