Auction 85 · Lot 216
(1853-1921) Portrait of a Young Hasid (Wearing Shtreimel).
- Estimate
- $150,000–$200,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
KAUFMANN, ISIDOR
Place
(Austro-Hungarian, 1853-1921)
Description
Oil on wood panel. Vertically signed by the artist lower right. Lavish gilt frame. Dimensions: 15.5 x 19.5 inches (39.3 x 49.5 cm).
summary
The most outstanding of all Jewish portrait artists.
It is well documented that Kaufmann was fond of regularly utilizing particular models in his dramatic portraits set within the traditional world of Eastern Europe. Similarly, Kaufmann reused background props such as the Torah-Ark Curtain seen in the present painting.
In this regard, for a Kaufmann portrait similar to ours, see Catalogue of the Jewish Museum of Vienna, Isidor Kaufmann (1995) pp. 217 (illus.) And for the Torah-Ark curtain, see: Portfolio Isidor Kaufmann, Vienna-Leipzig (1925) no. 10.