Fine Art, Antique Chinese Porcelain, Silver and Judaica
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May 11, 2015
Tagore 40 st. Ramat Aviv, Israel
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LOT 109:
Rebecca By Abel Pann 1883 - 1963
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Sold for: $18,000
Start price:
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14,000
Estimated price :
$20,000 - $30,000
Buyer's Premium: 20%
VAT: 17%
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Rebecca By Abel Pann 1883 - 1963
Description
Signed (upper right)
Technique
Pastel on cardboard
Dimensions
68 x 49 cm
Provenance
Rosenfeld Gallery
Private Collection, Tel Aviv.
Condition
Good, not exmined under glass
Notes
Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the Tel Aviv Museum conservator and expert, Haim Mehler, dated May, 1975.
Biography
Abel Pann (Fefferman) Painter. Born in Latvia in 1883. Studies: 1898 Art School, Odessa; with Yehuda Pan, teacher of Chagall, Paris; 1903 Grande Chaumiere, Paris. Teaching: 1913 Bezalel, Jerusalem; 1920-24 Bezalel. 1895 Moved to Vilna and worked as lithographer. 1903 Went to Paris, exhibited in the Salons and became known as caricaturist. 1912 Met Boris Shatz who invited him to teach at Bezalel. 1914 Returned to Paris to settle his affairs, but prevented because of outbreak of war. 1916 Painted series 'The Road of Tears', drawings and lithographs of Russian pogroms. 1917 Went to U.S.A. where known as a Jewish artist. 1920 Returned to Israel. 1921 Imported a printing machine from Vienna and began printing illustrations of the Bible which he published in 1924. Died in Jerusalem in 1963.
