Lot 161
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Alfred Aaron Wolmark 1877-1961

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alfred Aaron Wolmark
  • Rabbis
  • signed Wolmark, lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 44 1/8 by 34 1/4 in.
  • 112 by 87 cm.
  • Painted circa 1905.

Provenance

The Fine Art Society, London
Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London
Sale: Christie's, London, June 12, 1987, lot 109

Exhibited

Kingston upon Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Alfred Wolmark, March 22-April 13, 1975, no. 7
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991 (on loan)

Condition

Canvas not lined. Surface in good condition, with very minor craquelure and pigment separation at upper half of right edge, some craquelure at center left, on the hand of the left figure; slightly soiled varnish. Under UV light: inpainting to craquelure at upper left corner and to the top of head at upper center.
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