into his workshop, he would imagine that she was some primeval figure arisen from the mists of antiquity, some Queen of Sheba who had awakened from the sleep of ages and had come to visit him.

In his oil paintings, Emmanuel relinquishes his former spontaneity of inspiration and swiftness of execution; he now strives to express his inner imaginary world through the medium of a difficult technique, by dint of sheer toil, in dark, heavy colours fired in the furnace of his desires... From his dark brown still-lives, from his dun-coloured female figures - suggestive of priestesses of some ancient cult, or of huge-winged, butterfly-like creatures - he changes over, almost drastically, to bright-coloured, heavy-contoured painting.

DR. HAIM GAMZU
Director, Tel-Aviv Museum (1969)

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A deep distant flame glows within these large canvases. Giantesses, expectant and with drawn, rise silently out of the drawings, powerfully and painfully facing us with the finality of a judgement.

And the women in his charcoal drawings! Their weight draws them earthward; their femininity is cast in them like ancient metal. Women created for huge architecture; their monumentality bears the imprint of a sensual touch, the touch of a passionate lover, fully aware of the sadness of life.