Portrait of a Hassidic Rabbi.

AUCTION 67 | Wednesday, December 16th, 2015 at 1:00
One Hundred and Fifty Years of Jewish Art

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Lot 7
KAUFMANN, ISIDOR.

Portrait of a Hassidic Rabbi.

Oil on panel. Signed by artist in red along left margin. Very fine, elaborate gilt frame. 7.25 x 6 inches / 18.5 x 15.25 cm.

(Austro-Hungarian, 1853-1921):

Est: $180,000 - $220,000
PRICE REALIZED $210,000
<<The most outstanding of all Jewish portrait artists.>> Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, Judaica, June 23rd, 1983, lot 435. For an almost identical portrait see Catalogue of the Jewish Museum of Vienna, Isidor Kaufmann (1995) pp. 272-3 (illus).