8 12 STEINHARDT, JAKOB. The Old City, Jerusalem. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated by artist lower right. Finely framed. 27 x 36.5 inches (68.5 x 92.7 cm). 1947. $15,000-20,000 ❧ German-born Jakob Steinhardt (1887-1968) emigrated to Palestine in 1933 following studies in the Academie Julian, Henri Matisse’s School in Art in Paris. In the present painting one can experience Matisse’s Fauvist influence - bold visual or ‘painterly’ brushstrokes, strong colors and a subjective view of nature.