Lot 25
  • 25

Mané-Katz

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Mané-Katz
  • The Road to Jordan
  • Signed MANÉ-KATZ and dated 35 (lower right)
  • Gouache on paper board
  • 20 1/4 by 26 in.
  • 51.4 by 66 cm
  • Painted in 1935.

Provenance

Dr. R. Gainsborough, London
A gift from the above in 1949

Exhibited

London, Ben Uri Collection, Subjects of Jewish Interest, 1946 –1947 (as The Road to Jericho
London, Ben Uri Collection, 1948 Jewish Art: Paintings from the Ben Uri Collection, as The Road to Jericho
London, Ben Uri Collection, Mané-Katz: Memorial Exhibition, 1963
London, Ben Uri Collection, Permanent Collection Exhibition, 1981
London, Ben Uri Collection, Homeless and Hidden 1, 2008, no. 23

Literature

Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Art Society Permanent Collection Catalogue, London, 1959, no.  133
Barry Fealdman, Jewish Chronicle, September 18, 1981
Walter Schwab & Julia Weiner,  Jewish Artists: The Ben Uri Collection: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, London, 1994, p. 75, no. 269, not illustrated

Condition

Gouache on paper board. In generally good condition aside from scattered dots of foxing.
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