Nine portrait sketches. Eight in pen-and-ink, and one in pencil. Each signed, titled and dated by the artist.

Estimate: $200–$300
Hammer price: $100

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

author

OPPENHEIM, BERYL.

Place

Paris

Publication

1949

Description

Sketches titled (in English): Young Rabbi, Dwarf, French Girl, Rabbi, etc.

summary

It would be interesting to discover who the artist was, let alone to identify the Russian, Chassidic-looking Rabbi whose portrait appears here, present in Paris in 1949 (Rabbi M.M. Schneerson?).

Torn out from sketcbook. Each approx. 5.5 x 8 inches.

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