Lot 21
  • 21

Mané-Katz

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mané-Katz
  • Seascape
  • Signed MANÉ-KATZ and dated 34 (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 27 3/4 by 35 2/3 in.
  • 70.5 by 90.5 cm
  • Painted in 1934.

Provenance

A gift from the artist in 1935

Exhibited

London, Ben Uri Collection, Opening Exhibition (as The Storm)
London, Ben Uri Collection, Selections from the Ben Uri Collection, 1960
London, Ben Uri Collection, Mané-Katz: Memorial Exhibition,  1963
London, Ben Uri Collection, From Russia to Paris: Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries, 2012, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 31

Literature

Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Art Society Permanent Collection Catalogue, London, 1959, no.  132
Walter Schwab & Julia Weiner, Jewish Artists: The Ben Uri Collection: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, London, 1994, no. 267, illustrated p. 75
The Public Catalogue Foundation, Oil Paintings in Public Ownership: Camden, Vol. 11, London, 2013, illustrated p. 29

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from minor buckling to the canvas throughout. The work is thinly painted in areas and the canvas weave is visible, though this appears to be the intention of the artist. UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting.
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