Sacred Splendor: Judaica from the Arthur and Gitel Marx Collection
Sacred Splendor: Judaica from the Arthur and Gitel Marx Collection
JOZEF ISRAËLS | MAN IN A TALLIT
Auction Closed
November 20, 08:47 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
JOZEF ISRAËLS
Dutch
1824 - 1911
MAN IN A TALLIT
signed Jozef Israels (lower right)
watercolor and pen and ink on paper
15½ x 11¾ in.
39.5 x 30 cm
Sale: Christie's, Amsterdam, October 20, 1994, lot 337, illustrated as A Jew Praying
This sensitive and finely rendered drawing shows an observant Jew wrapped in a tallit. This is one of very few works by Jozef Isaëls portraying figures from his own religious heritage.
There is a sketch of a woman sewing on the reverse.