Lot 92
  • 92

Ilya Schor

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Ilya Schor
  • Shabbat (Jew with Torah)
  • signed I. Schor, in Hebrew and with the artist's device (lower right)
  • oil on paperboard
  • 24 7/8 by 19 in.
  • 63.2 by 48.3 cm.
  • Executed circa mid-1950s.

Provenance

The artist
Thence by descent

Exhibited

New York, Yeshiva University Museum, Life of the Old Jewish Shtetl - Paintings and Silver by Ilya Schor, November 1975 - March 1976, no. 50, fig. 3, illustrated in the catalogue p. 6
Philadelphia, Kenmore Galleries, Inc.

Condition

Oil on paperboard. The paperboard has been bumped at the lower corners. The picture surface is in generally good condition aside from minor abrasions along the extreme edges. Under UV light: there are no apparent inpaints visible.
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