Hagit Lalo: A Painter who Begins at the End

First comprehensive exhibition of works by Hagit Lalo (née Shtriet). A forerunner of Abstract Expressionism in Israel, Lalo traveled in the early 1950s to California, studied art and was awarded a scholarship at the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Art. In 1959 she returned to Israel and held two solo exhibitions as well as participating in several group exhibitions. She died in 1961, not yet 30 years old.