Lot 22
  • 22

Maurycy Minkowski

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

Description

  • Maurycy Minkowski
  • Tisha B'av
  • Signed M. Minkowski (lower right)
  • Watercolor on paper laid down on board
  • 21 1/2 by 30 in.
  • 54.6 by 76.2 cm
  • Executed in 1927.

Provenance

Purchased in 1929

Exhibited

London, Ben Uri Collection, Opening Exhibition, 1944, (as Praying Women: Tisho B'Av [sic])
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
London, Ben Uri Collection, Subjects of Jewish Interest, 1946-1947
London, Ben Uri Collection, Jewish Art: Paintings from the Ben Uri Collection, 1948
London, North Western Reform Synagogue, Exhibition of Jewish Art, 1948
London, Ben Uri Collection, Selections from the Ben Uri Collection, 1960
London, Ben Uri Collection, Homeless and Hidden 1, 2008, no. 3

Literature

Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Art Society Permanent Collection Catalogue, London, 1959, no.  142
Walter Schwab & Julia Weiner, Jewish Artists: The Ben Uri Collection: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, London, 1994, no. 295, illustrated p. 80

Condition

Watercolor on paper laid down on board. In generally good condition aside from two holes near upper edge, a 5 inch surface scratch at upper center left, small scattered pin dots of loss, and a small 1 inch scuff at lower center. There are also losses to the board at the corners under the mat.
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