Auction 83 · Lot 167
(Jakub Wajnlejz). Synagogue Service with Choir.
- Estimate
- $25,000–$30,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
WEINLES, JACOB
Place
(Polish, 1870-1938)
Description
Signed by the artist and inscribed “Warsaw,” lower left. Attractively framed.
summary
Provenance: Sotheby’s Tel Aviv, Judaica, 23rd April, 1995, Lot 210 (entitled “Yom Kippur.”).
A wonderfully expressive painting by this Polish-Jewish artist, born in Starokostiantyniv (Yiddish: Alt-Konstantin), who spent all his life in Warsaw.
Rear of canvas with biographical details of the artist written in German in a pre-War hand.
20 x 36 inches (50.8 x 91.5 cm).
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