Mané-Katz 1894-1962

O'Hana Gallery, London
Mr. Aharon Sacharov, Israel
Thence by descent
Purchased from the above by the present owner

Robert S. Aries, Mané-Katz, The Complete Works, London, 1970, vol I, no.172, p. 54, illustrated

Original canvas. There is faint craquelure mostly concentrated on the bottom left corner (red area) and on the upper right. There are horizontal lines with slight craquelure corresponding to the center stretcher. Overall this work is in good condition. This work has not yet been examined under UV light.
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Born to a Jewish Orthodox family in Ukraine in 1894, Mané-Katz began his study of art at an early age and attended the School of Fine Arts in Kiev and then the École des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1913. His classes there under the tutelage of Fernand Cormon, shaped his artistic style, and influences of Rembrandt, the Fauves and even Cubism are abundant throughout his oeuvre. He became close to Pablo Picasso and other prominent artists, and he became associated with the École de Paris movement. This movement was coined by André Warnod in the mid –twenties and was attached to the group of Jewish artist's, mostly from Eastern Europe, who arrived and settled in Paris between the two wars and whose style leaned towards Expressionism and Fauvism. In 1917 he returned to the Ukraine to teach , but was back in Paris by 1921. The subjects of his oeuvre throughout his life , such as the Jewish musicians in the present work, were derived from the scenes of Jewish life he experienced in his homeland, but imbued with the bright and cheerful colors of Fauvism and with the energetic rapid brushstrokes associated with Expressionism and the work of Soutine.