Lot 17
  • 17

Issachar Ryback

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Issachar Ryback
  • Le repos (Resting), or, La campagne
  • Signed I. Ryback (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 12 1/4 by 18 7/8 in.
  • 59 by 48 cm

Provenance

Purchased in 1935

Exhibited

London, Ben Uri Collection, Zangwill exhibition, 1934 (as 'Cornfield')
London, Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Opening Exhibition, 1944
London, Ben Uri Collection, Exhibition of Paintings by A.A. Wolmark (Konstam Collection) Dobrinsky – Paris and Selected Works from the Ben Uri Art Collection, 1945
Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, Festival of Jewish Arts, 1951
London, Ben Uri Collection, Selections from the Ben Uri Collection, 1960
London, Bonhams, Bonhams Israeli: Selected Works by Israeli Artists from the Ben Uri Collection, 2011
London, Ben Uri Collection, From Russia to Paris: Chaim Soutine and his
Contemporaries
, 2012, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 34

Literature

Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Art Society Permanent Collection Catalogue, London, 1959, no. 164
W. Schwab and Julia Weiner, Jewish Artists: The Ben Uri Collection: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, London, 1994, illustrated p. 92
Osborne Samuel, Apocalypse: Unveiling a lost masterpiece by Marc Chagall and Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, London, 2010, p. 28, illustrated pl. 26
The Public Catalogue Foundation, Oil Paintings in Public Ownership: Camden, Vol. 11, London, 2013, illustrated p. 37

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from a few small areas of craquelure in areas of heavier impasto. The work is thinly painted in areas and in areas where the artist has scratched away paint, the canvas weave is visible. UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting.
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