A Game of Chess.

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

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Lot 8
MARKOWICZ, ARTUR.

A Game of Chess.

Pastel on paper, laid down on board. Signed by artist lower right. Exhibition label on verso: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pieknych w Krakowie (“Friends of the Fine Arts Society, Cracow.”) Elaborate glass-fronted gilt frame. 18.75 x 25 inches / 47.5 x 63.5 cm.

Cracow, c. 1930:

Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,000
Artur Markowicz (1872-1934) was a Jewish Realist painter and graphic artist born in Cracow, Poland. Between the years 1896 and 1903 he studied art in the cities of Munich, Berlin and Paris. He spent the years 1907-08 in Jerusalem. Markowicz’s Jewish scenes and character-studies display a strong originality with influences of Symbolism, along with elements of Expressionism.