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MARYAN (also known as Pinchas Burstein) [Polish] (1927–1977)…
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MARYAN (also known as Pinchas Burstein) [Polish] (1927–1977)…
See original version (French)
Estimate €20,000 - €30,000
Voluntary lot
Description
MARYAN (also known as Pinchas Burstein) [Polish] (1927–1977)
The Man with the Shofar, 1953
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower left.
59 x 72.5 cm
Framed.
Provenance:
Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Vogel Collection, acquired in 1990 from the previous owner.
Exhibition:
Maryan Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum, 31 July – 11 September 1979, no. 8 (label on the stretcher).
Maryan is a Polish-Jewish artist deeply marked by the Holocaust. He was the sole survivor of his family, who were deported to Auschwitz. Having become a painter, he exhibited for the first time in Israel in 1949, then lived in Paris in the 1950s, where he studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts before settling in the United States in the early 1960s.
In the 1950s, his painting oscillated between geometric figuration and abstraction, in which one can make out bodies, faces and animal forms.
In this work, one can see the influence of Cubism, of Fernand Léger—whose classes he attended—as well as of art brut. Speaking of his artistic approach, Maryan wrote: ‘As far as my painting is concerned, I officially declare that I would rather have called my painting “truth-painting”.’ This work depicts a religious Jew blowing the shofar. He is dressed in a kittel and a tallit. His tear-stained face is highly expressive. The white, rectangular hands, positioned perpendicularly in the centre of the painting, are a recurring motif in the artist’s work.
Keywords:
Judaica, Jew, Jewish, Hebrew, rabbis, Torah, Hebrew, Hebraica, Judaism, synagogue, Zionism, Passover, Pesach, Haggadah, Hagada, Hagada, Hagadah, Passover, menorah, Hanukkah, Torah, Juden, Israelite, Israel, anti-Semitism, Dreyfus, Megillah, Sephardic, ketubah
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