Untitled (Romanian Woman), c. mid-20th century

Sandu Liberman was born in Yasi, Romania in 1923. Between 1946 and 1953 he took part in eleven state shows in Bucharest. In 1952 he was awarded the gold medal at the International Art Festival in Romania. That same year he was commissioned to illustrate the large encyclopedia Romania, and was appointed Official Portrait Artist of Romania.

He went to Israel in 1962 and settled there. Liberman was commissioned by the Government of Israel to make portraits on many occasions. In 1965 he was commissioned by the Government of Israel to make a portrait of the President of Guinea and it hangs in the Royal Palace. In 1976, he completed a portrait of Nelson A. Rockefeller that was donated to the Hood Museum of Art at the sitter's alma matter, Dartmouth (class of 1930). The portrait is still in the collection today, and was later copied by Paul Peter Kiehart to produce a second portrait.

Select Museum Collections:
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover
Newfields, Indianapolis
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington