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Property of a Gentleman

Emmanuel Mané-Katz

Talmud Lesson

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Gentleman


Emmanuel Mané-Katz

Ukrainian/French 1894 - 1964

The Talmud Lesson


signed and dated upper left: Mané-Katz/ 29

oil on canvas

canvas: 32 by 39 ⅜ in; 81.2 by 100 cm

framed: 41 ¼ by 48 ¾ in.; 104.8 by 123.8 cm

Executed in 1929.

Private Collection, London (acquired directly from the artist by the late 1950s) 

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie's, Tel Aviv, 27 April 2008, lot 12 

Where acquired by the present owner

London, Ben Uri Gallery, Jewish Artists of France, October - November 1957 

London, Ben Uri Gallery, Mané-Katz, Memorial Exhibition, May 1963, no. 3

R.S. Aries, Mané-Katz, 1894 - 1962, The Complete Works, vol. I, London, 1970, p. 10, no. 29, illustrated