The Founding Fathers at the Wailing Wall - Gold Medal Winner By Mane Katz 1894 - 1962

The Founding Fathers at the Wailing Wall - Gold Medal Winner By Mane Katz 1894 - 1962
Description
Signed and dated 36 (lower left).

Technique
Oil on canvas

Date Created
1936

Dimensions
160 x 121 cm

Provenance
The estate of Yehezkel Sakharov.

Literature
von Robert S, Jacques O'Hana; Mane-Katz 1894-1962 : the Complete Works , published by Gebundene Ausgabe,1970, Vol I, pp.34
Mane Katz - Ukraine, Paris, Israel, published by the Mane Katz Museum, 2011

Condition
Good

Exhibitions
The World Exhibition, Paris, 1937 - won the gold medal.
Exhibited at Beit HaNassi (the president's premise) 1952-1957 (Yitzhak Ben Zvi)
Eretz Israel - Mane Katz, the Mane Katz Museum, spring 1988

Notes
Enclosed is a thank you letter from Rachel Yanait ben Zvi ( Yitzhak Ben Zvi's wife) to Mane Katz.

Biography
Born in 1894 in the Ukraine. He studied in an Art School in Kiev. In 1913 he traveled to Paris to study Art at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts and became a friend of Haim Soutin. He was made prisoner of the Germans in Royan in 1939. In 1958 he moved to Israel, where he died in 1962. Exhibitions: Paris: Salon des independants and Salon D'automne, Brno, Prague, Warsaw, Brussels, London, New York, Chicago, Montreal, The Tel-Aviv Mueseum, Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Strasbourg, Mexico City, Museum of Modern Art in Haifa, Tokyo, Milano.