Whimsical Portrait.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

ADLER, JANKEL

printer

Michel Lévy

Place

(France), 1939

Publication

1860

Description

Gouache on card. Signed lower left and dated “39” lower right.

summary

Born in Lodz, expressionist painter Jankel Adler (1895-1949) moved to Germany where he studied with Paul Klee, along with Picasso and Leger. Hitler’s regime displayed Adler’s art at the Entartete Kunst exhibition - an example of “degenerate art” which caused him to flee and take refuge in Paris. He volunteered for the Free Polish Forces during WWII, later living in Scotland, the only one among his nine Polish-Jewish siblings to have survived the war.

Lightly foxed, edges chipped. 13 x 9.75 inches.

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