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Property of a Lady

Ludwig Blum

Herod's Gate, Jerusalem

Lot Closed

March 30, 12:56 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Lady

Ludwig Blum

Israeli

1891 - 1975

Herod's Gate, Jerusalem


signed, inscribed and dated L. Blum, Jerusalem 1932 lower left

oil on canvas

Unframed: 58.5 by 79.5cm., 23 by 31¼in.

Framed: 72 by 92.5cm., 28¼ by 36½in.

The Lass family; thence by descent
Herod's Gate (bab al-Zahra in Arabic), is in the Old City's northern wall in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter. It is among the city's newest gates, opened in 1875 to provide a passageway to the neighbourhoods which were beginning to develop north of the Old City.