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The Cemetery.

Auction 70 · Lot 31

The Cemetery.

Estimate
$6,000–$8,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

MARKOWICZ, ARTUR.

Place

Early 20th century

Description

Pastel on paper laid down on board. Signed by artist lower left. Polish exhibition label on verso dated 12. xiii. 1947. Unexamined out of frame.

summary

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 also spent a year in Jerusalem, 1907-08. Markowicz’s Jewish scenes and character-studies display strong originality, with influences of Symbolism and elements of Expressionism.
19 x 25 inches.
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