Lot 23
  • 23

Moshe Elazar Castel

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Moshe Elazar Castel
  • Oriental Jew
  • Signed M. Castel and dated 1926  (lower left) 
  • Oil on canvas
  • 25 by 19 5/8 in.
  • 64 by 50 cm
  • Painted in 1926.

Provenance

Purchased between 1931-58.

Literature

Ben Uri Art Society Permanent Collection Catalogue, London, 1959, no. 26
Walter Schwab & Julia Weiner, Jewish Artists: The Ben Uri Collection: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, London, 1994, p. 32, no. 60, not illustrated
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. There are 4, small patches on the reverse. Surface: In generally good condition aside from scattered craquelure, buckling of the canvas at the corners and along edges, and a few small dents to the upper left quadrant. UNDER UV: There appear to be a few scattered dots and dashes of old inpainting under a varnish which fluoresces green.
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