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Emmanuel MANE-KATZ (1894–1962)
Reading, 1931
Oil on canvas.
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Emmanuel MANE-KATZ (1894–1962)
Reading, 1931
Oil on canvas.
See original version (French)
Estimate €30,000 - €40,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Emmanuel MANE-KATZ (1894–1962)
Reading, 1931
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower left.
(Minor restoration).
151.5 x 151.5 cm
Provenance:
- Collection of René Bursztein-Lavigne (1906–1981), Paris. Acquired directly from the artist.
- René Lavigne Estate Sale, Phillips, London, 29 June 1987, catalogue, lot 208, illustrated on p. 21.
- Me Elkaïm Sale, L’Isle-Adam, 8 April 1990, lot 137.
- Madame Vogel Collection, Paris. Acquired at the previous sale.
Exhibitions:
- Russian Paintings, Národní galerie, Prague, 1935, no. 433.
- Montparnasse, the Europe of Artists, 1915–1945, Regional Archaeological Museum, Aosta, July–October 1999 (transport label on the reverse).
- Die verborgene Spur, Jüdische Wege durch die Moderne. Felix-Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, 7 December 2008–19 April 2009.
- École de Paris, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 19 September–20 November 2011.
- Chana Orloff and the École de Paris, mahJ, Paris, 21 July–6 October 2013.
- Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine. Paris as a School, 1905–1940, mahJ, Paris, 2 June–30 October 2021.
- Magnetic Paris, Jewish Museum Berlin, 25 January–1 May 2023 (shipping label on the reverse).
- Litvak Artists in Paris, Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum, Vilnius, 25 May–29 September 2023.
Bibliography:
Robert Ariès and Jacques O’Hana, *The Complete Works: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Mané-Katz*, Volume I, London, Editions d’Art Jacques O’Hana, 1970, no. 103, reproduced on p. 33.
Deposited by Myriam Vogel at the Museum of Jewish Art and History, this 1931 oil on canvas is one of Mané-Katz’s masterpieces. Painted on a very large scale—unusual for a Montparnasse artist living in extreme poverty at the time—*La lecture* is an emblematic work by the artist. In this composition, Mané-Katz depicts a group of workers gathered around a Yiddish newspaper, with the same fervour as a gathering of rabbis around the Talmud. It is a scene imbued with spirituality and power, enhanced by the red and ochre colour palette and the intensity of the figures.
Keywords:
Judaica, Jewish, Hebrew, rabbis, Torah, Hebrew, Hebraica, Judaism, synagogue, Zionism, Passover, Haggadah, Passover, menorah, Hanukkah, Torah, Juden, Israelite, Israel, anti-Semitism, Dreyfus, Megillah, Sephardic, ketubah
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