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JUDAICA FINE ART SELLING EXHIBITION

MATSART AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS is the biggest Israeli Auction house, with two branches in Israel (Jerusalem and Tel Aviv), and one in New York. It has several partner auction houses in Europe. It is the only Israeli located auction house holding International auctions, holding 3-4 International Fine Art Auctions every year, 2 Israeli Fine Auctions, Interiors Auction almost each month as well as several Internet auctions during the year. Due to a strong public interest we also hold Judaica auctions and selling exhibitions each year.

Matsart Auctioneers & Appraisers, owned by the renowned artist Lucien Krief, was founded in 2006 merging the established firms Matsa for Public Auction (founded in 1970’s, formerly of Ramat Gan) and Lucien Krief Fine Art Gallery (founded in Jerusalem).

We offer to organize exhibitions in Jewish communities, galleries and museums. We are in contact with Jewish Museums and consign works for Judaica and Jewish themed exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

Major art investments in Judaica have long been an important avenue for investment for art collectors, at least since the beginning of the 20th century. Works

by Important Jewish artists have steadily gone up in prices and are today in most important museums and collections. Many Jewish Museums have been opened during the last 20 years in USA as well as in Europe to show the diversity and richness of Jewish Art. If Chagall or Soutine paintings come to mind, not less known are today the paintings of Mane Katz, not to mention the extremely rare paintings by Isidor Kaufmann which has been a major source of investment for art collectors through the world.

Matsart has a young and dynamic team with experts in different fields - Modern and Contemporary art, School of Paris, Israeli and Judaica fine art. Our specialists provide expertise in specific areas such as logistics and art shipping worldwide. We also offer a full line of Estate services including free in-house consultations, appraisals and estate liquidation. We offer restoration and framing solutions.

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JUDAICA FINE ART SELLING EXHIBITION INCLUDING SELECTED WORKS FROM THE LUCIEN KRIEF GALLERY COLLECTION

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MATSART AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS LUCIEN KRIEF GALLERY 21 King David Str., Jerusalem +972-2-6251049 • office@matsart.net • www.matsart.net

JERUSALEM, 21 King David St., 9410145 TEL AVIV, 15 Frishman St., 6357815 NEW YORK, 415 East 72 St., NY 10021

MORITZ GOTTLIEB 1856-1879 (Polish)

Sketch of Reha

oil on canvas mounted on panel 29 x 20 cm (11 x 8 in.) initialled lower right PROVENANCE: Sale: Sotheby's Jerusalem Judaica, May 17-18, 1985, lot 120.

Jacobo and Asea Furman Collection, Los Angeles.

Private European collection.

EXHIBITION: The Great Masters: 19th-century Jewish Art and its Origins, ManĂŠ-Katz Museum, Haifa, May 17 - October 2014.

LITERATURE: Furman, Jacobo, Treasures of Jewish Art: From the Jacobo and Asea Furman Collection of Judaica, New York, 1998, p.263 (color illustration).

Sketch of Reha is part of a series of illustrations commissioned from Gottlieb by the renowned publisher Brukmann for a luxury edition of Gotthold E. Lessing's dramatization of Nathan the Wise.

GUSTAV BAUERNFEIND 1848-1904 (German)

The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, c.1904

watercolor on paper 60 x 45 cm (24 x 18 in.) inscribed 'Jerusalem' lower right PROVENANCE: Private collection, Morocco.

Private European collection.

EXHIBITION: Chagall and the Circle of Jewish Painters of the 20th Century, Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, December 2012 January 2013 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, pp.56-57).

This work belongs to a series of paintings which included four large-format oils on the same subject.

WILLIAM GALE 1823-1909 (British)

Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, 1863 oil on canvas 53 x 73 cm (21 x 29 in.) signed and dated lower right

PROVENANCE: Sale: London, 1875.

Sale: London, June 11, 1934.

Private collection, Israel.

DUTCH SCHOOL

LAZAR KRESTIN→

In the synagogue

Portrait of hassid, 1898

18th century

oil on board 22 x 31 cm (9 x 12 in.)

PROVENANCE: Private European collection.

1868-1938 (Lithuanian, Austrian) oil on panel 22 x 17 cm (9 x 7 in.) signed and dated lower right

ALOIS HEINRICH PRIECHENFRIED 1867-1953 (Austrian)

Rabbis learning

oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm (24 x 31 in.) signed upper right PROVENANCE: Private collection, France.

ARTUR MARKOWICZ 1872-1934 (Polish)

Sofer stam

oil on cardboard 89 x 68 cm (35 x 27 in.) signed and located 'Krakow' lower left PROVENANCE: Sale: Matsart, January 28, 2007, lot 134.

Elbit Imaging Ltd. Collection.

ISAAC HOLTZ

b.1927 (Polish, American)

Sabbath, Jerusalem, 1982

oil on canvasboard 30 x 15 cm (12 x 6 in.) signed lower left, signed, dated, titled and located 'New York' on the reverse PROVENANCE: Private collection, USA.

LUDWIG BLUM 1891-1975 (Israeli)

View of the old city, Jerusalem, 1927 oil on canvas 59 x 117 cm (23 x 46 in.) signed, dated and located lower right PROVENANCE: Private collection, Israel.

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Mira Chen, the artist's granddaughter, and dated October 31, 2012.

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

Jerusalem, 1951

oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm (29 x 36 in.) signed lower right, signed again on the stretcher PROVENANCE: Collection of Sir Isaac Wolfson, London, acquired in the 1950's.

Mrs Jessie Hyman (nĂŠe Wolfson), a gift from the above in the 1960's.

Thence by descent, in 1981.

Private European collection.

EXHIBITION: Reuven Rubin-Selected Paintings from British Collections, Christie's London, March 11-14, 2013.

LITERATURE: A. Werner, Rubin, Tel Aviv, 1958, p.32 (illustrated).

NACHUM GUTMAN 1898-1980 (Israeli)

Jerusalem, 1960

oil on canvas 82 x 100 cm (32 x 39 in.) signed in English and Hebrew and dated lower right PROVENANCE: Private collection, Israel.

Recanati collection, Tel Aviv. Private collection, Israel.

EXHIBITION: Nachum Gutman, Tel Aviv Museum, September-October 1970 (illustrated on the cover of the exhibition catalogue).

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

Rider with bouquet, 1960 oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm (29 x 21 in.) signed lower right

PROVENANCE: Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles.

Private European collection.

EXHIBITION: Rubin, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, October 1962, no.44.

Rubin Fiftieth Anniversary exhibition, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, December 1962 - January 1963 (illustrated on the cover of the exhibition catalogue).

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

Safed in Galilee, 1954-55 oil on canvas 76 x 102 cm (30 x 40 in.)

signed lower left, signed, dated, titled and inscribed 'made in Israel' on the stretcher PROVENANCE: Private collection, acquired directly from the artist in 1955.

Private European collection.

EXHIBITION: Rubin Retrospective exhibition, Forty Years of Painting in Israel, The Tel Aviv Museum, Spring 1955, no.120 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, titled as The Hills of Safed).

MARC CHAGALL

1887-1985 (Russian, French)

The Angel and the Tree of life; The Angel and menorah, The tree of life; Angel and the tree of life (Preparatory drawing for the stained-glass window project in Mainz), 1981

tempera, gouache, black pencil, pen and ink on paper 130 x 92 cm (51 x 36 in.) signed twice and located 'Mainz' PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist.

Private collection, France.

Private European collection.

EXHIBITION: Marc Chagall, Vitraux et sculptures, Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, 1984, nos. 143, 145 & 146.

LITERATURE: Chagall et la Bible, Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Skira/Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p.180, cat.no.53-4, 53-5, 53-6 (full page color illustration).

Comite Chagall has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

MANÉ KATZ

1894-1962 (Ukrainian, French)

Studying the Torah, 1955 oil on canvas 92 x 72 cm (36 x 28 in.) signed upper right

PROVENANCE: Collection of Jean and Bluette Nordmann, Fribourg.

Sale: Artcurial, March 23, 2011, lot 114.

Private European collection.

EXHIBITION: Mané Katz exhibition, O’Hana Gallery, London, June 1955 (label on the reverse).

LITERATURE: Robert S. Aries & Jacques O’Hana, Mané-Katz 1894-1962, The Complete Works, London, 1970, vol.I, p.133, no.431 (illustrated).

MANÉ KATZ

1894-1962 (Ukrainian, French)

Four musicians

oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm (36 x 29 in.) signed lower center PROVENANCE: Sale: Fullers, December 4, 2010, lot 45.

Private European collection.

EXHIBITION: Chagall and the Circle of Jewish Painters of the 20th Century, Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, December 2012 - January 2013, pp.30-31 (illustrated in exhibition catalogue).

HUVY

b.1927 (Israeli)

Jerusalem wedding

oil on canvas 100 x 200 cm (39 x 79 in.) signed lower right

←ALBERT BENAROYA b.1963 (Israeli)

Still life with chanukiah oil on canvas 116 x 89 cm (46 x 35 in.) signed lower right

BARUCH NACHSHON→ b.1939 (Israeli)

Song for Jerusalem, 1984-5

oil on canvas 84 x 57 cm (33 x 22 in.) signed in English and Hebrew, dated and located 'Hevron' lower right

OLGA FINKELSTEYN b.1978 (Russian)

Menorah

print 81 x 80 cm (32 x 31 in.) signed

MOSHE CASTEL 1909-1991 (Israeli)

Untitled

oil, basalt and mixed media on canvas 106 x 142 cm (41 x 55 in.) signed lower left and again on the reverse PROVENANCE: Castel family collection, Israel.

←ARTHUR KOLNIK 1890-1972 (Lithuanian)

Purim spiel

oil on panel 73 x 54 cm (29 x 21 in.) signed lower left, signed and located 'Paris' on the reverse

THÉO TOBIASSE→ 1927-2012 (French)

Danse pour des rivages de lumiere oil and mixed media on canvas 72 x 59 cm (28 x 23 in.) signed upper left, titled lower right

BEN AVRAM b.1937 (Israeli)

Jerusalem

oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm (35 x 47 in.) signed lower left, signed, titled and dated on the reverse

YOEL BENHARROUCHE b.1961 (Israeli)

Jerusalem - diptych

oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm (39 x 47 in.) signed lower right

MOSHE CASTEL 1909-1991 (Israeli)

Halleluyah

oil on canvas 61 x 46 cm (24 x 18 in.) signed lower right, signed again on the stretcher

RAPHAEL ABECASSIS b.1953 (Israeli)

Jonah

acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 cm (20 x 20 in.) signed lower right

MENASHE KADISHMAN 1932-2015 (Israeli)

Sheep head

acrylic on canvas 130 x 110 cm (51 x 43 in.) signed lower right, signed again on the reverse

YAACOV AGAM b.1928 (Israeli)

Star of David

polymorph 65 x 65 cm (26 x 26 in.) signed, numbered 'H.C.9/18' on the reverse

SHUKI FREIMAN (Israeli)

Bible verse

handwritten and handpainted parchment 55 x 210 cm (22 x 83 in.)