Auction 43 · Lot 305
KUNSTADT, MEIR.
- Estimate
- $4,000–$6,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
1914.
Description
Large Watercolor depicting members of the celebrated Sofer Family of rabbinic leaders - (R. Akiva Eger, R. Moses Sofer, R. Abraham S. B. Sofer and R. Simha Bunim Sofer) - as stand-ins for the Rabbis of Bnei Braq from Passover Hagadah fame. (See Kunstadt's Hagadah, Berlin 1922. (Yudlov 2850).
summary
A member of the artist's family, Yitzchak Kunstadt, Rabbi of Grossvardein, was a disciple of R. Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sofer (the Kethav Sofer), who in later years entrusted Kunstadt to tutor his son, the Shevet Sofer.
21 x 34 inches.
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