ID 1164049
Lot 310 | MOSHE MOKADY (1902-1975)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
Self Portrait
signed 'MOKADY' (lower left) and signed with initials in Hebrew (lower right)
oil on canvas
39 ½ x 25 ¾ in. (97.7 x 65.3 cm.)
Painted in 1923-1924
Provenance
The artist's family.
Anonymous sale, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, 12 January 1997, lot 26.
Golkonda Gallery, Tel Aviv, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
R. Fuhrer, Israeli Painting, From Post-Impressionist to Post-Zionism, New York, 1998 (illustrated p. 51; dated 'early 1920s').
Exhibited
Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, To Paint only as I see, Moshe Mokady, a retrospective, December 1999 - March 2000, no. 2, p. 19 (illustrated).
Tel Aviv, Gordon Gallery, Moshe Mokady, selected works 1923-1973, February - March 2010.
Ashdod, Museum of Art, First person, singular: masculinity in Israeli art, June - November 2019.
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Austria, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings, Statuettes |
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Austria, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings, Statuettes |
| Address of auction |
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