Lot 20
  • 20

Moshe Elazar Castel

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Moshe Elazar Castel
  • Two Jews
  • Signed M. Castel and dated 1926 (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 25 by 19 1/2 inches
  • 64 by 49.5 cm
  • Painted in 1926.

Provenance

Purchased between 1931–58

Exhibited

London, Ben Uri Collection, Israel and Art: 60 Years through the Eyes of Teddy Kollek, 2008, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (as Oriental Jew)

Literature

Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Art Society Permanent Collection Catalogue, London, 1959, no. 27
Walter Schwab & Julia Weiner, Jewish Artists: The Ben Uri Collection: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, London, 1994, no. 62, illustrated p. 32
The Public Catalogue Foundation, Oil Paintings in Public Ownership: Camden, Vol. 11, London, 2013, illustrated p. 11

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from scattered craquelure and visible canvas weave near extreme edges (work is thinly painted in these areas and appears to be the artist's intent). UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting.
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