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Mane Katz (1894-1962)Ukraine,Hassid Drummer Litho

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Mane Katz (1894-1962)Ukraine,Hassid Drummer Litho
This lithograph by Mane-Katz is titled “Le Tambour” - the Drum. Mane-Katz was a
Ukrainian artist best known for his depictions of the shtetl - a small Jewish town or
village in eastern Europe. He moved to Paris when he was 19 to study art and returned
to Russia during the first World War; he exhibited in Petrograd, then returned to the
Ukraine after the Russian revolution and taught art. In 1921 he returned to Paris
because there was so much fighting in his hometown during the Russian Revolution,
and in Paris again he became friends with Picasso and other important artists and was
affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; he was also considered
part of a group referred to as the Jewish School of Paris. In 1931, his painting The
Wailing Wall was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair. Mane-Katz made his
first trip to Palestine in 1928 and visited the country annually thereafter. He said his
actual home was Paris, but his spiritual home was Eretz Yisrael - the Land of Israel. He
left his paintings and extensive personal collection of Jewish ritual art to the city of
Haifa, and four years before his death, the mayor of Haifa provided him with a building
on Mt. Carmel to house his work; this became the Mane-Katz Museum in Israel. The
lithograph is numbered 73 / 300 in the lower left margin and signed “Mourlot Lith -
Marananche Gray” in the image on the lower right. The overall size is 33 x 26 3/4 in.
wide and the sight size is 25 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. wide.