Three-quarter length seated profile portrait of Herzl by I. Hagamann.

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 300

(HERZL. THEODOR).

Three-quarter length seated profile portrait of Herzl by I. Hagamann.

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated by artist lower left. Framed 33. 5 x 24. 5 inches.

Vienna, 1903.:

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,750

Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the Elder Statesman of the Zionist Movement, lived in Vienna from 1878 until his death in 1904. He founded the weekly “Die Welt” for the dissemination of the Zionist idea. He sat for this portrait in his Vienna study in the year before his premature death in 1904. Provenance: Kestenbaum & Company, Sale 12 Lot 315.