Matsart Israeli Fine Art Auction

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Fine works of art by N. Gutman, R. Rubin, M. Castel, Y. Bergner, M. Kadishman, A. Benaroya, Ben Avram, L. Blum, Y. Simon, M. Ardon, S. Charuvi, M. Janco, H. C. Pissarro, M. Chagall, P. Picasso, Arman, Y. Agam

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1SHMUEL CHARUVI1897-1965 (Israeli)

Yad Avshalomoil on canvasboard 26 x 34 cm (10 x 13 in.) signed lower right and located 'Jerusalem' lower left

Provenance: Shmuel Krechmer, Jerusalem.

$2,800-3,500

2SHMUEL CHARUVI1897-1965 (Israeli)

Tomb of Avshalomoil on canvasboard 26 x 20 cm (10 x 8 in.) signed lower center

Provenance: Shmuel Krechmer, Jerusalem.

$2,800-3,500

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3 SHMUEL CHARUVI1897-1965 (Israeli)

Kinneretoil on canvas 34 x 51 cm (13 x 20 in.) signed and dated lower right

$4,500-5,500

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5HERMANN STRUCK1876-1944 (Israeli)

Portrait, 1928watercolor on paper 23 x 16 cm (9 x 6 in.) signed and dated twice and located 'Haifa'lower left

$1,800-2,500

4HERMANN STRUCK1876-1944 (Israeli)

Portrait of elderly Jew, 1930oil on canvas49 x 32 cm (19 x 13 in.)signed and dated lower right

$4,500-5,500

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6HERMANN STRUCK1876-1944 (Israeli)

Portrait of a young boy, 1920'soil on canvas 49 x 32 cm (19 x 13 in.) signed, dated and located 'Haifa' lower left

$12,000-14,000

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7ABEL PANN1883-1963 (Israeli, Latvian)

Prophetpastel crayons on paper64 x 44 cm (25 x 17 in.)signed upper right

Provenance: Daniel Weissman collection, Tel Aviv.

$14,000-18,000

8ABEL PANN1883-1963 (Israeli, Latvian)

David and the harp, 1957pastel crayons on paper70 x 59 cm (28 x 23 in.)signed and dated upper left

$18,000-22,000

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9 ABEL PANN1883-1963 (Israeli, Latvian)

Moujik et son cheval, 1914pastel crayons and watercolor on paper34 x 24 cm (13 x 9 in.)signed and dated lower right

$900-1,200

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10 ABEL PANN1883-1963 (Israeli, Latvian)

Hagar and Ishmaelpastel crayons on cardboard44 x 61 cm (17 x 24 in.)signed and inscribed lower right

$4,500-6,000

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11KAETE EPHRAIM MARCUS1892-1970 (Israeli)

Infant with a cat in a crib, 1926oil on canvas58 x 79 cm (23 x 31 in.)signed and dated lower left

Provenance: Chava and Zvi Dormann col lection.

Literature: Ada Tiber, Kaete Ephraim Marcus - Retrospective,Tel Aviv Museum, 1997, p. 70, fig. 10.

$6,500-8,000

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12JOSEPH KOSSONOGI1908-1981 (Israeli)

Horse and couple, 1925oil on canvas23 x 30 cm (9 x 12 in.)signed and dated lower left

Provenance: Gaby and AmiBrown collection.Private European collection.

$2,800-3,500

13ARIEH LUBIN1897-1980 (Israeli)

Smokerwatercolor and gouacheon paper40 x 30 cm (16 x 12 in.)signed upper left

Provenance:Daniel Weissmancollection, Tel Aviv(label on the reverse).

$1,200-1,500

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Israel Paldi (1897-1979) was one of the more interesting figures in the founding generation of Israeli art. A non-conformist at heart, as Irit Zartal labeled him in her 1967 article, Paldi was one of the artists in the Bezalel school that revolted against Boris Schatz's classical way of teaching in 1909. In 1913, still a young man, he leaves Israel for Munich to finalize his artistic education. On his return in 1921 he would slowly formulate an individual Modernist idiom, which shows a strong expressionist inclination.

The two paintings on auction are from the late 1920s, when the artist had already formulated his mature style. The earlier of the two, an oil painting from 1926, shows two figures resting by the sea. The work strongly recalls the famous 'Summer rest' by Nachum Gutman from the same year which shows 2 large figures seated in a landscape, yet both the location and the style differ substantially. Gutman's Galilee landscape is rich in coloring and detail (watermelon and head scarf). Paldi's seascape is more restrained in his subject matter- reduced to the figures and a solitary boat on the horizon- and the coloring is limited to a warm brown-blue chromatism. Behind Paldi's 'reductionist' method is his desire to concentrate our attention on the expression of his figures. He infuses Gutman's static figures with a strong movement both through the use of heavy brush strokes and through the complex posture of the closely tangled figures. The figures’ strong plasticity and movement imprint on

us a sensation that the figures are alive and move before us at the rhythm of the movement of the waves in the background. In adapting this style Paldi would seem to have absorbed Picasso's lesson from the paintings of the 1920s as 'Two women running' (1922) that movement is an essential component in expressing the simplest of subjects- in this case the close relationship between two Halutzim.

The second painting is a 1929 watercolor of 2 fishermen resting after their daily work. The subject of working man- agriculture workers, fishermen and construction workers- was very common at the beginning of the Yishuv. Paldi excelled in painting fishermen, a subject close to his art as the 1927 decoration of the Ohel Theatre show by this name demonstrates. Many of his paintings depict this subject as the famous 'Fisherman in Jaffa Port' (1928). Some of the intensity of this painting showing the fisherman at work is retained in the expressive ships whose slanting masts project into the sky and in the protruding rock at the background. Their movement is balanced by the arm of the fisherman to the left, whose strong hand would represent the working ethic of the time. Although the strong expression, we don’t seem to lose any of the gaiety and spontaneity of early Israeli art, through the beautiful coloring.

Oren Migdal

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14ISRAEL PALDI1892-1979 (Israeli)

Two fishermen, 1929watercolor on paper22 x 25 cm (9 x 10 in.)signed and dated lower left

Provenance: Dr . Ar ie Fr iedman Col lection.Private collection, Israel.

$18,000-22,000

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15ISRAEL PALDI1892-1979 (Israeli)

Two reclining figures in seascape, 1926oil on canvas53 x 72 cm (21 x 28 in.)

Provenance: Dr. Arie Friedman Collection.Private collection, Israel.

Literature: Prof. Mordechai Omer (ed.), From the Peremen Collection throught the Tel Aviv Museum, 1920-1932, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2002, p. 79, no. 60 (illustrated).

$80,000-120,000

Nachum Gutman, 1920's

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16PINCHAS LITVINOVSKY1894-1984 (Israeli)

Portrait of Arab man in kaffiyah, 1920'soil on canvas81 x 65 cm (32 x 26 in.)signed lower centerProvenance: Abramovsky col lection, Tel Aviv. Pr ivate col lection, Israel .

Literature: Gideon Ofrat, Litvinovsky, Litvinosky Foundation & Carta, Jerusalem, 1998, p. 68 (full page illustration in color).

$12,000-18,000

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17PINCHAS LITVINOVSKY1894-1984 (Israeli)

Grandmother and child, 1930'soil on canvas55 x 38 cm (22 x 15 in.)signed lower left

Provenance: Shimon Munk Gal lery, Tel Aviv.

$4,000-5,000

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Nahum Gutman was born in Bessarabia in 1898. At the age of five, the family relocated to Odessa, moving on from there to Palestine in 1905. At 15, Gutman abandoned his studies at the ‘Gimnasia Hertzeliya’ (high school) and headed for Jerusalem to attend the Bezalel art academy. After serving as a soldier in World War I, he completed his studies in Europe. He returned to Palestine in 1926, and became active with a group of artists who painted the local landscapes in the new “Eretz Yisrael style”. During this period he resided in Tel Aviv, and beyond his preoccupation with painting, also designed theatrical sets and illustrated children’s books and papers. During the 1960's, Gutman designed numerous mosaic murals in Tel Aviv and its surroundings.

Gutman’s major aim was to recreate in painting ‘the legend’ of what he saw as the magic act of the creation of Eretz-Yisrael. He sought to reenact with a freshness and spontaneity the life of the newly created nation, its people and its events. The painting before us showing women carrying agricultural products (Havat Bikurim) would seem to reenact a Kibbutz procession of the Festival of Shavuot. In a frieze like composition Gutman has depicted in one line three women in colorful outfits carrying on their heads baskets of fresh fruits - watermelons and grapes. Behind them 3 other women dressed in white

bend down to raise another basket full of black freshly picked grapes, while a fourth woman with large earrings transfixes the viewer’s gaze at the parade. The parade is headed by a man carrying a banner or a flag as a soldier heading a triumphant entry of a winning army but the background of the parade is not that of a cheering crowd in the city or even at the kibbutz gate but an empty citrus grove.

Gutman loved to go on tours in the Israeli landscape. His favored location were the citrus orchards of the Sharon where the “perfumed trees.. the sky was as smooth as polished marble… and the solitary palms that stood between the groves rose rebelliously into the sky and spread their branches“. The lively maidens whom stand before the groves with the seasoned fruits would symbolize for Gutman the fertility of the land of Israel. His is an unwavering optimism, a constant expectation of good-heartedness from man and of generosity from the nature that surrounds man.” (Yehuda Ha-Ezrahi, Nachum Gutman, pp. 28-29). For this exquisite painting Gutman received the Dizingoff price for 1938.

Oren Migdal

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18NACHUM GUTMAN1898-1980 (Israeli)

Women carrying agricultural products (Havaat Bikurim), 1938oil on canvas54 x 65 cm (21 x 26 in.)signed lower right

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Israel .

Accompanied by a certifcate of authenticity signed by Prof. Hemi Gutman, the artist's son, dated July 9, 2012. On behalf of this work the artist recieved theDizengoff prize in 1938.

$110,000-130,000

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19NACHUM GUTMAN1898-1980 (Israeli)

Kiosk in Neve Tzedek, 1938gouache and pastel crayonson paper mounted on canvas44 x 48 cm (17 x 19 in.)signed lower left, datedlower right

$12,000-14,000

20NACHUM GUTMAN1898-1980 (Israeli)

Hassidim in Safedoil and mixed media on papermounted on canvas56 x 38 cm (22 x 15 in.)signed lower right

Provenance: Simone and Jean Tiroche col lection.Private European collection.Prof. Hemi Gutman, the artist's son, has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$12,000-14,000

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21NACHUM GUTMAN1898-1980 (Israeli)

Figure and donkey in a grove, 1952oil on canvas73 x 92cm (28 x 36in) signed and dated lower right

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Prof. Hemi Gutman, the artist's son, dated July 20, 2008.

$45,000-60,000

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Moshe Castel was born in 1909 in Jerusalem to a Sephardic family originating in Castille. At the age of 13 he entered the Bezalel School of Art, which he finished in 1925 at the age of 16. Feeling that he was not accomplished enough and following the current steps of other Israeli artists, he moved to Paris in 1927. There he studied in the Academie Julien and assiduously frequented the Louvre Museum, studying the technique of the Great Masters of the past - Titian, Delacroix and Courbet.

Few pictures have remained from his first years in Paris. Most of them were lost when the artist’s pictures were taken from his atelier while he was on a trip to Israel in 1933 with the first exhibition of Ecole de Paris paintings. The few that remained were sold at a small London exhibition financed by his brother Joseph in 1928.

After his successful exhibition in London, Castel undertook several landscape and genre paintings of Israel. One of the most impressive of these is the ‘Dejeuner sur l’erbe’ from 1928. Based on the well known motive by Manet, the artist depicts a Jewish Sephardic family out for a meal in the Israeli countryside. Before a well furnished cloth laid on a green meadow sit two figures - a woman in red and a young Yemenite man playing the oud. The couple is seated in a wide landscape in which are placed several oriental looking figures heading to a cluster of houses placed on the horizon. The subject is based on Castel’s childhood

memories of his Shabbat walks with his mother around Jerusalem where the family lived. In a smaller version of this subject, Idylle (1928) (Matsart sale 108 lot 13) we see the same figures, with a town at the back probably Jerusalem and some sheep grazing below a tree. The larger version before us allowed Castel to enrich the content of the painting. He adds two women carrying water jugs on their head and a man in white carrying water which seem to be heading not to Jerusalem but to some red-roofed houses of a newly built yishuv (settlement). The figures which slowly meander along the path at a leisurely pace balance the seated couple. The sheep which has joined them completes this naive but extremely vivid painting.

Castel’s style during the late 1920's is heavily influenced by the Italian Primitives, chiefly by Duccio whose paintings he saw in a trip to Siena and whose colorful yellow and orange based landscapes and slender figures he tries to emulate. This larger of the two versions of the ‘Dejeuner’ is a most fortunate moment in this artist’s art; soon to come under the sway of life in Paris and its cafes, he will turn to paint scenes of Montmartre and its jovial fun free life. The lore of the east and childhood recollections will then recede back into memory.

Oren Migdal

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22MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Dejuner sur l'herbe, 1928oil on canvas78 x 63 cm (31 x 25 in.)signed lower right

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Hertzel ia-Monaco.Private collection, Israel.

$150,000-180,000

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23 MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Shabbat mealoil on canvas50 x 66 cm (20 x 26 in.)signed lower left, signed on the reverse

Provenance: Castel Family col lection, Israel .Private collection, USA.

$50,000-70,000

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24MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

On the road to Hebron, Rachel's tomb, 1930'soil on canvas55 x 38 cm (22 x 15 in.)signed lower right

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Tel Aviv.And by descent to the owner's grandson. Private collection, Canada.

$35,000-45,000

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25 MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Synagogue scene, Safed, 1940'soil on canvas60 x 73 cm (24 x 29 in.)signed in English and Hebrew lower left,signed again on the reverse

$45,000-55,000

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26MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Garageoil on paper mounted on cardboard47 x 55 cm (19 x 22 in.)signed lower right

$12,000-15,000

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28 MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Musical interludeoil on canvas47 x 57 cm (19 x 22 in.)signed lower left

Provenance: Castel Family collection, Israel.Private collection, USA.

$20,000-24,000

27 MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Shabbath wifeoil on canvas55 x 38 cm (22 x 15 in.)signed lower left

Provenance: Castel Family collection, Israel.Private collection, USA.

$18,000-22,000

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29ANNA TICHO1894-1980 (Israeli)

Landscapepen on paper17 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.)signed lower right

$900-1,200

30ANNA TICHO1894-1980 (Israeli)

Landscapepen on paper23 x 34 cm (9 x 13 in.)signed lower right

$900-1,200

31ARIEH LUBIN1897-1980 (Israeli)

Landscape, 1931oil on canvas35 x 46 cm (14 x 18 in.)signed and datelower leftProvenance: Dr. Stefanand Nava Kwiat collection,Tel Aviv.

$6,500-7,500

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32MORDECHAI LEVANON1901-1968 (Israeli)

Galilee landscape, 1945oil on canvas38 x 55 cm (15 x 22 in.)signed and dated lower right

$8,000-10,000

31ARIEH LUBIN1897-1980 (Israeli)

Landscape, 1931oil on canvas35 x 46 cm (14 x 18 in.)signed and datelower leftProvenance: Dr. Stefanand Nava Kwiat collection,Tel Aviv.

$6,500-7,500

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33MENACHEM SHEMI1897-1951 (Israeli)

Safed landscapeoil on canvas46 x 62 cm (18 x 24 in.)signed lower right

Provenance: Private collection, Jerusalem.

Daliah Belkine has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$35,000-45,000

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34MENACHEM SHEMI1897-1951 (Israeli)

Women in the villageoil on canvas38 x 55 cm (15 x 22 in.)signed lower right

$14,000-16,000

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35 MENACHEM SHEMI1897-1951 (Israeli)

Landscapeoil on masonite40 x 60 cm(16 x 24 in.)signed lower rightProvenance: Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv(label on the reverse).Private collection, USA.

$8,000-10,000

36MENACHEM SHEMI1897-1951 (Israeli)

Woman in interior, c. 1940oil on canvas42 x 33 cm (17 x 13 in.)signed lower left

Provenance:Private European collection.Sale: Christie's South Kensington, November 11, 2010, lot 59.Private collection, acquiredat the above sale by the present owner.

$6,500-7,500

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37MENACHEM SHEMI1897-1951 (Israeli)

Binyamina, 1939 (Recto); Maayan Quarter, Haifa (Verso)oil on canvas50 x 73 cm (20 x 29 in.)signed and dated upper leftProvenance: Pr ivate col lection, Tel Aviv.exhibited: Menachem Shemi:Retrospective, Ein-Harod Museum,September-December 2010.Dalia Belkin has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$16,000-18,000

(verso)

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39AHARON AVNI1906-1951 (Israeli)

Flowersoil on canvas65 x 50 cm (26 x 20 in.)signed upper right

$1,500-1,800

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< 38MOSHE MOKADY1902-1975 (Israeli)

Figure in green, 1929oil on panel55 x 46 cm (22 x 18 in.)signed lower left

Provenance: Mokady family collection.

exhibited: Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, March-April, 1972(label on the reverse).Tel Aviv Retrospective Exhibition, December 1999.Literature: Yona Fischer andIrith Hadar, Moshe Mokady,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1999,no. 70, p. 125 (illustrated).Nina Mokady has kindlyconfirmed the authenticityof this work.

$18,000-25,000

40MOSHE MOKADY1902-1975 (Israeli)

Woman and childoil on canvas100 x 46 cm (39 x 18 in.)signed lower right

$8,000-10,000

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41YITZHAK FRENKEL FRENEL1899-1981 (Israeli)

Safedoil on canvas47 x 55 cm (19 x 22 in.)signed lower right

$2,800-3,500

42YITZHAK FRENKEL FRENEL1899-1981 (Israeli)

Landscapeoil on canvas46 x 55 cm (18 x 22 in.)signed lower left

$4,500-5,500

43 YITZHAK FRENKEL FRENEL1899-1981 (Israeli)

David playing harp before king Sauloil on canvas46 x 55 cm (18 x 22 in.)signed lower left

$2,800-3,500

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44 YITZHAK FRENKELFRENEL1899-1981 (Israeli)

Weddingoil on canvas56 x 47 cm (22 x 19 in.)signed lower left

Provenance:Skinner Gallery(label on the reverse).Private collection, USA.

$6,000-8,000

45 YITZHAK FRENKELFRENEL1899-1981 (Israeli)

Nature morte oil on masonite33 x 52 cm (13 x 20 in.)signed lower right

$900-1,200

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46MORDECHAI LEVANON1901-1968 (Israeli)

Safed, 1964oil on canvas101 x 81 cm (40 x 32 in.)signed in English lower left,signed in Hebrew and dated lower right

$6,000-8,000

47MORDECHAI LEVANON1901-1968 (Israeli)

Safed, 1962oil on canvas73 x 55 cm (29 x 22 in.)signed in English lower left,signed in Hebrew and datedlower right

$2,500-3,500

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48 MORDECHAILEVANON1901-1968 (Israeli)

Safedoil on canvas76 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.)signed lower right

Provenance:Private collection, USA.

$6,000-8,000

49YAACOV EISENSCHER1896-1980 (Israeli)

Landscape with womanoil on canvas64 x 81 cm (25 x 32 in.) signed lower right

$3,000-4,000

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50 LUDWIG BLUM1891-1975 (Israeli)

View of the Old city, 1959oil on canvas26 x 35 cm (10 x 14 in.)signed in English and Hebrew and dated lower left

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, New York.

$8,000-10,000

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51LUDWIG BLUM1891-1975 (Israeli)

Market scene, 1950oil on canvas38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 in.)signed in Hebrew and dated lower right,signed in English lower left

Mira Chen, artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$12,000-15,000

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52 LUDWIG BLUM1891-1975 (Israeli)

Caravan in Judea desert, 1930oil on canvas58 x 70 cm (23 x 28 in.)signed, dated and located 'Jerusalem' lower left

Provenance: Sale: Tiroche, January 30, 2010, lot 46.Private European collection. Private collection, New York.

Mira Chen, artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmedthe authenticity of this work.

$28,000-35,000

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53 LUDWIG BLUM1891-1975 (Israeli)

Jerusalem view from the Mount of Olives, 1954oil on canvas61 x 100 cm (24 x 39 in.)signed in English and Hebrew and dated lower right

Provenance: Yeshiva University, New York. Private European collection.

exhibited: Jerusalem and the Holy Land - the Paintings of Ludwig Blum (1891-1974), Museum of Biblical Art, New York, October 28, 2011 - Junuary 15, 2012.

Mira Chen, artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmedthe authenticity of this work.

$45,000-55,000

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54 AFTER REUVEN RUBIN1893-1974 (Israeli)

Flutist, 1970painted glass relief35 x 26 x 5 cm (14 x 10 x 2 in.)signed, dated and numbered '1/8'on the top

A cooperation between Reuven Rubin andthe Italian glass artist Vittorio Constantini.

$8,000-12,000

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55REUVEN RUBIN1893-1974 (Israeli)

Harvest time in Galilee, 1967oil on canvas54 x 73 cm (21 x 29 in.)signed lower left, signed, dated, titled and inscribed 'made in Israel' on the stretcher

Provenance: Stern Studio (label on the reverse).Carmela Rubin has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$80,000-100,000

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56 REUVEN RUBIN1893-1974 (Israeli)

Fisherman family, 1955oil on canvas61 x 50 cm (24 x 20 in.)signed lower left, signed, dated and titledon the stretcher

Provenance: Schneider Gal ler ies, New York.Collection of Dr. And Mrs. Newton D. Scherl.

Carmela Rubin has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$65,000-80,000

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57REUVEN RUBIN1893-1974 (Israeli)

Family with donkeyindia ink and wash on paper34 x 49 cm (13 x 19 in.)signed lower left

Carmela Rubin has kindly confirmedthe authenticity of this work.

$4,000-6,000

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58 REUVEN RUBIN1893-1974 (Israeli)

Still life with pomegranate and grapesoil on canvas26 x 31 cm (10 x 12 in.)signed lower left

Carmela Rubin has kindly confirmedthe authenticity of this work.

$24,000-28,000

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59 REUVEN RUBIN1893-1974 (Israeli)

Woman with child and donkeyindia ink and washon paper52 x 36 cm (20 x 14 in.)signed lower right

$4,500-6,000

Provenance:Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. List collection.Sale: Women's Campaign, United Jewish Appeal - Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Joint Campaign, 23rd Annual Art Auction, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, May 19, 1976.Private collection, Connecticut, USA, acquired at the above sale.Sale: Sotheby's New York, December 19, 2012, lot 36.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Carmela Rubin has kindly confirmedthe authenticity of this work.

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60REUVEN RUBIN1893-1974 (Israeli)

On the road to Galilee, 1966oil on canvas47 x 56 cm (19 x 22 in.)signed lower center, signed, dated and titled on the stretcherCarmela Rubin has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.$60,000-80,000

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Avraham Naton was born in Romania in 1903. From 1930 to 1933 he studied in the Bucharest Art Academy and was active in the Zionist youth movement “Zeirei Zion”. Upon immigrating to Israel in 1935, he settled in the north of Israel and then moved in 1939 to Ramat Gan, where he became part of the Tel-Aviv artistic milieu. A key figure in the “New Horizons” group of 1948, Naton’s style stands out in comparison to other members of the group such as Josef Zaritzky for its ‘geometrical abstraction’ adhering strictly to form and color.

Naton’s art can be divided into three distinct periods - his early “Israeli Expressionist” style of the 1940s in which he painted Israeli landscapes and portraits; the period from 1948 to 1954 when he became active in the “New Horizons” group and can be defined as a period of transition to abstract art; and his late abstract paintings from 1954 to 1958.

The first two paintings on auction are from Naton's expressionist period. 'Café Scene' from 1942 is a variation on the theme of Piano cafés, a theme that was close to the artist’s heart. The theme already painted in an early 1939 painting (Concert at Cafe, Matsart auction 115 lot 30) depicts a café interior where men and women in well cut suits sit around tables drinking while listening to music. Unlike the earlier version, the artist adopts here a more expressionist and less graphic style. The figures are modeled in color and the use of a low view point allows the artist to convey the night scene in the café as would have been seen by a spectator coming into the room. In the dim light of the interior stand out in the front a solitary lady in white with a yellow hat, while in the recess at the back in the shadow of the stage, sits a striking yellow-dressed woman with a group of regulars. Our eye, moving inwards, sees the musicians and catches a glimpse of a drummer to the left. In the inward movement we suddenly perceive that we are listening to the slow sway of a Jazz band. This is not in Naton's native Romania but in his n

The second painting on auction 'Building site' (1940's), shows a different aspect of Israeli life

in the Yishuv - the pioneering spirit (Haluziut) of building the country. In striking contrast to the slow moving nocturnal scene of the café, here the artist depicts workers assiduously at work in a two story building. The darker coloring is changed to a vivid blue, yellow and pink chromatism emphasizing the happiness and vitality of life in the new Jewish city of Tel-Aviv. The workers are seen from a distance undertaking different tasks. A strong inward movement from left to right quickens the pace of the painting, but this is broken down by the big building sprawling before us and the yellow smoke slowly rising from it. The strong sun which illuminates the right of the building serves as a reminder of the warm conditions of Israel. The aim of the sun is to focus our attention on the main event - the act of building - and not get lost in the beautiful romantic coloring or smoke.

The third painting, undertaken in Naton’s typical cubist lyrical style belongs to the period of the New Horizons. ‘The Orchestra’ shows a chamber orchestra in full swing. The musicians are harmonized by their checkered suits and through their musical instruments - the red cello at the center links the right part of the composition through the red violin and music stand, while the ochre clarinet at the center links the drum to the left. Light is also a unifying element; a cubist rectangular opening at the center lights up in an uneven light, the hand of the cellist, the arch of the violinist and the music sheet.

While compositional and musical harmony is a major theme, it is the lyricism in which the actor’s faces and their swaying bodies are modeled that gives the tone to the painting. These, when joined together with little details as the grey rectangle with red lines on the left, play a major role in establishing a lyrical composition or perhaps a musical score with cold and warmer graduations that slowly grows up on you from the bottom upwards as the rhythm of the Jazz band gradually picks up.

Oren Migdal

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61AVRAHAM NATON1906-1959 (Israeli)

Workers in a building site, 1940'soil on board40 x 50 cm (16 x 20 in.)signed lower left

$18,000-22,000

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62AVRAHAM NATON1906-1959 (Israeli)

Cafe scene, 1942oil on canvas50 x 59 cm (20 x 23 in.)signed in Hebrew 'Natanzon' and dated lower left

$14,000-16,000

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63 AVRAHAM NATON1906-1959 (Israeli)

The musiciansoil on canvas39 x 50 cm (15 x 20 in.)signed upper rightProvenance: Art Gal lery International , Buenos Aires, August 1967.The Israeli Phoenix Collection.Sale: Matsart, March 3, 2011, lot 70.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

exhibited: The Whole World is a Stage, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, September 1998.Joseph Hackmey – Israel Phoenix Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art,Prof. Mordechai Omer, November 1998.Avraham Naton - Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Irith Hadar,April – June 2008.

$8,000-10,000

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64 SHALOM SEBBA1897-1975 (Israeli)

Couple by the table, 1946gouache on paper48 x 66 cm (19 x 26 in.)

$4,000-6,000

65 SHALOM SEBBA1897-1975 (Israeli)

Interior scenegouache on paper24 x 19 cm (9 x 7 in.)signed lower right

$4,000-6,000

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66SHMUEL SCHLESINGER1896-1986 (Israeli)

Children of Jerusalemoil on canvas73 x 60 cm (29 x 24 in.)signed lower right, signed and titled on the reverse

$7,000-9,000

67SHMUEL SCHLESINGER1896-1986 (Israeli)

Jerusalem landscapeoil on canvas50 x 73 cm (20 x 29 in.)signed lower right, signed and titled on the reverse and again on the stretcher

$3,000-5,000

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68SHMUEL SCHLESINGER1896-1986 (Israeli)

Oriental sceneoil on canvas55 x 93 cm (22 x 37 in.)signed lower right

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Tel Aviv.

$7,000-9,000

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69MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Untitledoil and crayons on papermounted on canvas49 x 34 cm (19 x 13 in.)signed lower right

$6,500-7,500

70ISRAEL PALDI1892-1979 (Israeli)

Birdsoil on canvas82 x 100 cm (32 x 39 in.)signed lower right

$2,500-3,500

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71 MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Eliezer and Rebecca, 1949oil on glass36 x 30 cm (14 x 12 in.)signed in English and Hebrew lower right, signed, dated and inscribed 'A souvenir to Elli from Tiberias and Safed with friendship, Castel, 1.49-7.49' on the reverse

$9,000-12,000

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72 YOHANAN SIMON1905-1976 (Israeli)

Kibbutz night scene, 1965oil on canvas24 x 33 cm (9 x 13 in.)signed in English lower left, signed in Hebrewand dated upper right

$6,000-9,000

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73YOHANAN SIMON1905-1976 (Israeli)

View of the kibbutz through a windowoil on canvas27 x 35 cm (11 x 14 in.)signed in English lower left and in Hebrew lower right

$9,000-12,000

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74YOHANAN SIMON1905-1976 (Israeli)

Fantastic landscape, 1968oil on canvas27 x 35 cm (11 x 14 in.)signed in English lower left, signed in Hebrew and dated lower right

$6,500-7,500

75YOHANAN SIMON1905-1976 (Israeli)

In a Hannukah-Mood, 1970oil on canvas17 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.)signed in English lower left, signed in Hebrew and dated lower right, signed, dated and titled on the stretcher

$2,800-3,500

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76 YOHANAN SIMON1905-1976 (Israeli)

"Plantes a prime reveilles...," 1975oil on canvas27 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in.)signed in English lower left, signed in Hebrew anddated lower right, signed, dated and titled on the reverse

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, New York.

$5,000-7,000

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78MARCEL JANCO1895-1984 (Israeli)

Don Quixoteoil on board40 x 70 cm (16 x 28 in.)signed lower left

$7,000-9,000

77AVIGDOR ARIKHA1929-2010 (Israeli)

Portrait d`une femme, 1952oil on canvas41 x 27 cm (16 x 11 in.)signed in English and Hebrewand dated upper right

$18,000-22,000

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79MARCEL JANCO1895-1984 (Israeli)

Goatoil on cardboard35 x 50 cm (14 x 20 in.)signed lower left

Mrs. Dadi Janco, the artit's daughter, has kindlyconfirmed the authenticity of this work.

$3,500-4,500

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80 RUTH SCHLOSS1922-2013 (Israeli)

Young girloil on canvas73 x 50 cm (29 x 20 in.)signed lower right

$5,000-7,000

81RUTH SCHLOSS1922-2013 (Israeli)

Man with red pigeonink and gouache on papermounted on canvas32 x 37 cm (13 x 15 in.)signed in English lower left,signed in Hebrew lower right

$800-1,200

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82RUTH SCHLOSS1922-2013 (Israeli)

Seated womanoil on canvasboard36 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.)signed in English lower left and in Hebrew lower right

$1,500-2,500

83RUTH SCHLOSS1922-2013 (Israeli)

A girl in a yellow dressoil on canvasboard54 x 33 cm (21 x 13 in.)signed lower left

$2,700-3,200

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84RUTH SCHLOSS1922-2013 (Israeli)

Girl with a red scarfoil on canvas60 x 50 cm (24 x 20 in.)signed lower left

$7,000-9,000

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85 RUTH SCHLOSS1922-2013 (Israeli)

Mother and childoil on canvas65 x 55 cm (26 x 22 in.)signed lower right

$7,000-9,000

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86RUTH SCHLOSS1922-2013 (Israeli)

Young womanwatercolor on paper35 x 26 cm (14 x 10 in.)signed in English lower left and in Hebrewlower right

$1,000-1,200

87RUTH SCHLOSS1922-2013 (Israeli)

Wintergouache and ink on cardboard46 x 65 cm (18 x 26 in.)signed in Hebrew lower right, titled lower left

$1,200-1,500

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88 RUTH SCHLOSS1922-2013 (Israeli)

After coffeeoil on canvas81 x 73 cm (31 x 29 in.)signed lower right

$8,000-12,000

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89MOSHE MOKADY1902-1975 (Israeli)

Girl with teddy bearoil on paper mounted on board36 x 24 cm (14 x 9 in.)signed lower left

$1,800-2,500

90MOSHE MOKADY1902-1975 (Israeli)

Street clownsoil on canvas130 x 97 cm (51 x 38 in.)signed lower center

$9,000-12,000

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92ZVI MAIROVITCH1911-1974 (Israeli)

Mitzpeh-Ramonoil on paper mountedon canvas49 x 65 cm (19 x 26 in.)signed lower right

$1,200-1,500

91ZVI MAIROVITCH1911-1974 (Israeli)

Composition with figureoil on canvas81 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in.)signed lower right

Provenance:Estate of the artist(estate stampon the reverse).Private collection, Israel.

$3,500-4,500

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94ZVI MAIROVITCH1911-1974 (Israeli)

Flowers on green backgroundoil on board33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 in.)signed lower right

$1,200-1,500

93 YAACOV WEXLER1912-1995 (Israeli)

Woman in an interioroil on canvas100 x 81 cm (39 x 32 in.)signed in Hebrew lowerright and againon the reverse

$3,000-4,000

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95LEA NIKEL1918-2005 (Israeli)

Abstract composition, 1962oil on canvas55 x 46 cm (22 x 18 in.)signed and dated lower right, signed and dated on the reverse

Provenance: Sale: Matsart, May 18, 2008, lot 449.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

$9,000-12,000

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96LEA NIKEL1918-2005 (Israeli)

Abstract composition, 1958oil on canvas55 x 38 cm (22 x 15 in.)signed upper right, signed and dated on the reverse

Provenance: Col lection Baronne Al ix de Rothschild, Par is, numbered 389.(label on the reverse).Sale: Sotheby's New York, November 24, 2009, lot 52.Private collection.

$14,000-16,000

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98 AVIGDOR ARIKHA1929-2010 (Israeli)

Composition, 1961oil on canvas41 x 24 cm (16 x 9 in.)signed and dated lower right,signed and dated on the reverse

Provenance: Col lection BaronneAlix de Rothschild, Paris, numbered 192 (label on the reverse).Private European collection.

$2,800-3,500

97AVIGDOR ARIKHA1929-2010 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1965oil on canvas145 x 114 cm (57 x 45 in.)signed and dated lower center, signed againand dated onthe stretcher

Provenance: Daniel Weissman collection,Tel Aviv.

$8,000-12,000

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99 AVIGDOR ARIKHA1929-2010 (Israeli)

Orange composition, c. 1955oil on canvas46 x 38 cm (18 x 15 in.)

Provenance: Col lection Baronne Alix de Rothschild, Paris, numbered 2229 (label on the reverse).Private European collection.

$2,800-3,200

100AVIGDOR ARIKHA1929-2010 (Israeli)

Composition in orange and black, 1968oil on masonite35 x 24 cm (14 x 9 in.)signed and dated lower left

Provenance: Daniel Weissman collection, Tel Aviv.(label on the reverse).

$3,000-4,000

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101AHARON KAHANA1905-1967 (Israeli)

Interior with couple and fruit basket, 1947oil on canvas61 x 50 cm (24 x 20 in.)signed and dated lower right and again on the reverse

$13,000-15,000

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102 AHARON KAHANA1905-1967 (Israeli)

Abstract figures, 1949oil on canvas64 x 54 cm (25 x 21 in.)signed and dated lower right

Provenance: Sale: Matsart, March 23, 2011 lot 76.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

$8,000-10,000

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103 MORDECHAI ARDON1896-1992 (Israeli)

Enigmatichandwooven tapestry in a plexiglass box180 x 137 cm (71 x 54 in.)

Created in Atelier Georges Goldstein, Jerusalem (label on the reverse).

$5,000-7,000

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104AVRAHAM NATON1906-1959 (Israeli)

Black-grey composition, 1957oil on canvas77 x 101 cm (30 x 40 in.)signed lower left

Provenance: Gaby and Ami Brown collection.exhibited: Avraham Naton - Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum of Art,Irith Hadar, April - July 2008 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 103).

$14,000-18,000

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105 LEA NIKEL1918-2005 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1966oil on canvas46 x 81 cm (18 x 32 in.)signed and dated lower right

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection,Tel Aviv.Sale: Matsart, February 19, 2012,lot 179. Acquired at the abovesale by the present owner.

$8,000-12,000

106LEA NIKEL1918-2005 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1974oil on canvas197 x 133 cm (78 x 52 in.)signed and dated lower left and again on the reverse

Provenance: Simone and Jean Tiroche collection.Sale: Tiroche, January 21, 2006, lot 168.Private collection, Israel.Private European collection.

exhibited: Israeli Painting in Large Format, Ramat Gan Museum of Art, 1987(illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 54).

Mrs. Mira Avgar, the artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmedthe authenticity of this work.

$50,000-70,000

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107LEA NIKEL1918-2005 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1996acrylic on canvas101 x 101 cm (40 x 40 in.)signed and dated lower right, signed and dated againon the reverse

Mrs. Mira Avgar, the artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$12,000-15,000

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108ZVI MAIROVITCH1911-1974 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1966-67pastel crayons on paper99 x 49 cm (39 x 19 in.)signed lower left

Provenance: The Israel i Phoenix Collection.Sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 24, 2009.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

$6,500-7,500

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109MICHAEL GROSS1920-2004 (Israeli)

Headstone and wood37 x 29 x 26 cm (15 x 11 x 10 in.)signed on the base

Provenance: Estate of the artist.Private collection, acquired from the above.Sale: Christie's Tel Aviv, April 27, 2008, lot 108.Private colletion.

$6,000-8,000

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110MICHAEL GROSS1920-2004 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1972 (diptych)oil on canvas82 x 165 cm (32 x 65 in.)signed on the reverse

Provenance:Sale: Sotheby's New York, December 18, 2007, lot 70.Private colletion, Israel.

$28,000-35,000

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111MICHAEL GROSS1920-2004 (Israeli)

Portraitoil on canvas65 x 46 cm (26 x 18 in.)

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Aviva Gross,the artist's wife.

$6,000-8,000

112MICHAEL GROSS1920-2004 (Israeli)

Prototype for monumental bridgestainless steel36 x 41 x 29 cm (14 x 16 x 11 in.)signed on the base

$4,000-6,000

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113MICHAEL GROSS1920-2004 (Israeli)

Abstract compositionoil on canvas60 x 80 cm (24 x 31 in.)signed lower left

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Israel .Sale: Matsart, March 17, 2010, lot 123.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

$12,000-14,000

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114ORI REISMAN1924-1991 (Israeli)

Portrait of a manoil on canvas61 x 50 cm (24 x 20 in.)signed lower left

$38,000-45,000

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115 ORI REISMAN1924-1991 (Israeli)

Osnat with a doll, 1950'soil on canvas100 x 82 cm (39 x 32 in.)signed lower left

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, USA.

Literature: Ginton, E. (ed.), Or i Reisman: A Retrospective,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2004, catalogue number 16(similar work illustrated).

$12,000-15,000

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117AVSHALOM OKASHI1916-1980 (Israeli)

Abstract composition in red and black, 1964oil on canvas90 x 60 cm (35 x 24 in.)signed and dated lower right

$1,200-1,500

116 AVSHALOM OKASHI1916-1980 (Israeli)

Abstract composition, 1959oil and mixed mediaon canvas62 x 50 cm (24 x 20 in.)signed lower right, signedand dated '4/4/1959'on the reverse

$1,500-1,800

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119AVSHALOM OKASHI1916-1980 (Israeli)

Abstract composition, 1960oil and mixed mediaon canvas62 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in.)signed and dated lower left

Provenance: Estate of the artist (numbered '64' on the reverse).Private collection, Israel.

$1,800-2,200

118 MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Tehilim, 1958oil on canvas65 x 50 cm (26 x 20 in.)signed lower left,signed and datedon the reverse

Provenance: Sale: Matsart, March 17, 2010, lot 82. Acquired at the above saleby the present owner.

$6,000-8,000

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Moshe Castel was born in 1909 in Jerusalem to a Sephardic family originating in Castille. At the age of 13 he entered the Bezalel School of Art, which he finished in 1925 at the age of 16. Feeling that he was not accomplished enough and following the current steps of other Israeli artists, he moved to Paris in 1927. There he studied in the Academie Julien and assiduously frequented the Louvre Museum, studying the technique of the Great Masters of the past- Titian, Delacroix and Courbet.

Few pictures have remained from his first years in Paris. Most of them were lost when the artist’s pictures were taken from his atelier while he was on a trip to Israel in 1933 with the first exhibition of Ecole de Paris paintings. The few that remained were sold at a small London exhibition financed by his brother Joseph in 1928.

After his successful exhibition in London, Castel undertook several landscape and genre paintings of Israel. One of the most impressive of these is the ‘Dejeuner sur l’erbe’ from 1928. Based on the well known motive by Manet, the artist depicts a Jewish Sephardic family out for a meal in the Israeli countryside. Before a well furnished cloth laid on a green meadow sit two figures- a woman in red and a young Yemenite man playing the oud. The couple is seated in a wide landscape in which are placed several oriental looking figures heading to a cluster of houses placed on the horizon. The subject is based on Castel’s childhood memories of his Shabbat walks with his mother around Jerusalem where the family lived. In a smaller version of this subject, Idylle (1928) (Matsart sale 108 lot 13) we see the same figures, with a town at the back probably Jerusalem and some sheep grazing below a tree. The larger version before us allowed Castel to enrich the content of the painting. He adds two women carrying water jugs on their head and a man in white carrying water which seem to be heading not to Jerusalem but to some red-roofed houses of a newly built yishuv (settlement). The figures which slowly meander along the path at a leisurely pace balance the seated couple. The sheep which has joined them completes this naive but extremely vivid painting.

Castel’s style during the late 1920s is heavily influenced by the Italian Primitives, chiefly by Duccio whose paintings he saw in a trip to Siena and whose colorful yellow and orange based landscapes and slender figures he tries to emulate. This larger of the two versions of the ‘Dejeuner’ is a most fortunate moment in this artist’s art; soon to come under the sway of life in Paris and its cafes, he will turn to paint scenes of Montmartre and its jovial fun free life. The lore of the east and childhood recollections will then recede back into memory.

Oren Migdal

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120MOSHE CASTEL1909-1991 (Israeli)

Untitledoil, basalt and mixed media on canvas106 x 142 cm (42 x 56 in.)signed lower left and again on the reverse

Provenance: Castel Family collection, Israel.

$60,000-80,000

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121YEHEZKEL STREICHMAN1906-1993 (Israeli)

Tzilawatercolor and pencilon paper110 x 75 cm (43 x 30 in.)signed lower center

$3,000-4,000

122YEHEZKEL STREICHMAN1906-1993 (Israeli)

Tulipsgouache and watercoloron paper64 x 49 cm (25 x 19 in.)signed lower right

$1,800-2,200

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123JOSEPH ZARITSKY1891-1985 (Israeli)

Abstract composition, 1983oil on canvas100 x 97 cm (39 x 38 in.)siged and dated lower right

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

$22,000-26,000

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124YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

The naked king, 1962oil on canvas93 x 65 cm (37 x 26 in.)signed and dated upper right, signed again on the reverse

exhibited: XXXI Biennale Internationale d'Arte, Venice, 1962 (label on the reverse).

$18,000-22,000

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125 YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Miracle, 1979oil on canvas151 x 161 cm (60 x 63 in.)signed in English and Hebrew and dated lower left,signed and titled on the reverse

Provenance: Estate of the artist (numbered '21' on the reverse).Important collection, New Jersey.

$35,000-45,000

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126YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Still life, 1982oil on canvas33 x 50 cm (13 x 20 in.)signed in English andHebrew and dated lowerright, signed and titledon the reverse

$4,500-6,000

127YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Surrealistic composition, 1972oil on canvas33 x 41 cm (13 x 16 in.)signed and dated lowerright, signed and dedicatedon the reverse

$6,000-7,000

IMPORTANT ISRAELI COLLECTION, TEL AVIV

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128YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Interrogation, 1972oil on canvas81 x 99 cm (32 x 39 in.)signed and dated lower left,signed and titled on the reverseProvenance: Estate of the artist (numbered '57' on the reverse).Private collection, Israel.

$12,000-14,000

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IMPORTANT ISRAELI COLLECTION, TEL AVIV

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130YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Friends, 1970'soil on canvas50 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)signed lower right, signed and titled on the reverse

$7,500-9,000

129YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Big girl with little flower, 1970'soil on canvas50 x 33 cm (20 x 13 in.)signed upper right, signed and titled on the reverse

$6,500-7,500

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131YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Two kiosksoil on canvas54 x 65 cm (21 x 26 in.)signed lower right, signed and titled on the reverse

$22,000-24,000

IMPORTANT ISRAELI COLLECTION, TEL AVIV

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132

YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Generals, 1984oil on canvas61 x 81cm (24 x 32in) signed in English and Hebrew and dated upper left, signed and titled on the reverse

$14,000-18,000

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133YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Kleizmer musiciansoil on canvas30 x 25 cm (12 x 10 in.)signed lower left,signed and titledon the reverse

$5,500-6,500

134YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Untitledhandcolored lithograph38 x 27 cm (15 x 11 in.)signed lower right, inscribed 'AP' lower left

$1,500-1,800

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135YOSL BERGNERb.1920 (Israeli)

Berl Bassoil on canvas30 x 25 cm (12 x 10 in.)signed lower right, signed and titled on the reverse

$5,500-6,500

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136 SAMUEL BAKb.1933 (Israeli)

Three pearsoil on canvas56 x 47 cm (22 x 19 in.)signed lower left

$8,000-12,000

137 SAMUEL BAKb.1933 (Israeli)

Urban landscapeoil on canvas24 x 41 cm (9 x 16 in.)signed lower right

Provenance:Benjamin Family collection, New York.

$4,500-6,000

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138 SAMUEL BAKb.1933 (Israeli)

Flying pearoil on canvas81 x 60 cm (32 x 24 in.)signed in center

$12,000-18,000

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140 SAMUEL BAKb.1933 (Israeli)

Stop hereoil on canvas61 x 46 cm (24 x 18 in.)signed lower left

$9,000-12,000

139 SAMUEL BAKb.1933 (Israeli)

Still life with pearsoil on paper mounted on board65 x 50 cm (26 x 20 in.)signed lower left

$4,500-6,000

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141 SAMUEL BAKb.1933 (Israeli)

From time to timeoil on canvas38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 in.)signed lower right

$6,500-7,000

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142SAMUEL BAKb. 1933 (Israeli)

Distant fire, 1998oil on canvas81 x 100 cm (32 x 39 in.)signed lower leftLiterature: L. L. Langer, The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak, 1999, p. 40 (illustrated).Jeanne Gressler, The Game Continues - Chess In The Art of Samuel Bak,Pucker Gallery, 1988, no. 12 (illustrated).

$28,000-35,000

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143NAFTALI BEZEMb. 1924 (Israeli)

Untitledoil on canvas46 x 55 cm (18 x 22 in.)signed lower right andagain lower left

$3,500-4,500

144 NAFTALI BEZEMb. 1924 (Israeli)

Untitledwatercolor and pencil on paper22 x 20 cm (9 x 8 in.)signed lower left

$500-600

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145 NAFTALI BEZEMb. 1924 (Israeli)

Going to Jerusalemoil on canvas130 x 130 cm (51 x 51 in.)signed lower leftProvenance: Important pr ivate col lection, New Jersey.

$15,000-20,000

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146 NAHUM GILBOAb.1917 (Israeli)

Thrift shopoil on canvas24 x 19 cm (9 x 7 in.)signed lower left,signed and titledon the reverse

Provenance:Benjamin Family collection, New York.

$1,200-1,500

147RACHEL GILBOA(Bulgarian)

Jerusalem with stairs and arcsoil on masonite11 x 10 cm (5 x 4 in.)signed lower center, signed and titled on the reverse

$200-300

148RACHEL GILBOA(Bulgarian)

Jerusalem from the Eastoil on masonite11 x 10 cm (5 x 4 in.)signed lower left, signedand titled on the reverse

$200-300

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149 SAUL RASKIN1866 - 1966 (Ukrainian)

Tiberiasoil and blue ink penon canvasboard49 x 59 cm (19 x 23 in.)signed and titled in English and Hebrew lower right

$3,000-4,000

150 SAUL RASKIN1866 - 1966 (Ukrainian)

Kibbutzoil on canvas76 x 64 cm (25 x 30 in.)signed lower left

$3,000-4,000

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152 ZVI MALNOVITZERb.1945 (Israeli)

Rivky in studio, 1991oil on canvas46 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.)signed in English lower left,dated and titled in Hebrewlower right

Provenance:Private collection, Japan.

$2,800-3,500

151MEIR AXELROD1902-1970 (Russian)

Young girl with doll, 1948watercolor and gouacheon paper50 x 38 cm (20 x 15 in.)signed and dated lower right

$800-1,500

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153ZVI MALNOVITZERb.1945 (Israeli)

Cafe sceneoil on canvas60 x 81 cm (24 x 32 in.)signed in English and Hebrew lower left

$6,500-7,500

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154AVIGDOR ARIKHA1929-2010 (Israeli)

Towels, 1998oil on canvas92 x 73 cm (36 x 29 in.)signed lower right, dated '17 II 98' on the reverse

Provenance: Mar lborough Gal lery, London.Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010.

$45,000-60,000

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155AVIGDOR ARIKHA1929-2010 (Israeli)

View from the street, 1994oil on canvas65 x 81 cm (26 x 32 in.)signed upper left, dated '5 VII 94' on the reverse

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Israel .

$85,000-120,000

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157JAN RAUCHWERGERb.1942 (Israeli)

Still life, 1988oil on cardboard24 x 41 cm (9 x 16 in.)signed and dated upper right

$4,000-6,000

<156YIGAL OZERIb.1958 (Israeli)

Landing, 2003oil on canvas40 x 58 cm (16 x 23 in.)signed and datedon the reverse

Provenance: Mike Weiss Gallery, New York (label on the reverse). Gaby and Ami Brown collection.Private European collection.

$4,000-6,000

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158DANIEL ENKAOUAb. 1962 (Israeli)

Utensils, 1990oil on canvas35 x 45 cm (14 x 18 in.)signed and dated lower left

Provenance: Gaby and Ami Brown col lection.Private European collection.

$7,000-9,000

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159ISRAEL ZOHARb. 1946 (Israeli)

Woman in interior, 1977-78oil on canvas55 x 47 cm (22 x 19 in.)signed and dated center right

$1,000-1,500

160ODED FEINGERSHb. 1938 (Israeli)

Jerusalemoil on canvas60 x 90 cm (24 x 35 in.)signed lower left

$1,000-1,500

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161RA'ANAN LEVYb.1954 (Israeli)

Marteau sur l'oreiller II, 2000pastel crayons and charcoal on paper80 x 110 cm (31 x 43 in.)signed lower left

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Israel .

exhibited: Ra'anan Levy: La chambre double, Foundation Dina ViernyMusee Maillol, November 16, 2006 - January 29, 2007 (label on the reverse).

$5,500-6,500

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162ILAN BARUCHb.1974 (Israeli)

Dan beach, Tel Aviv, 1998oil on canvas25 x 43 cm (10 x 17 in.)signed, dated and titlel lower left,signed and dated on the reverse

$900-1,200

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<163ILAN BARUCHb.1974 (Israeli)

Executive coaching Hapoel Jerusalem, Gan Sakher, 2000oil on canvas55 x 54 cm (22 x 21 in.)signed and dated lower center,signed and titled on the reverse

$1,000-1,200

164DANIEL ENKAOUAb. 1962 (Israeli)

Landscape, 1994oil on canvas27 x 60 cm (11 x 24 in.)signed and dated lower left

$7,500-9,000

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165ALBERT BENAROYAb.1963 (Israeli)

Still life with tomatoesoil on canvas60 x 73 cm (24 x 29 in.)signed lower left

$6,000-9,000

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166ALBERT BENAROYAb.1963 (Israeli)

Figsoil on canvas35 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.)signed lower left

$4,000-6,000

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167BENI GASSENBAUERb. 1949 (Israeli)

Balcony in Yemin Moshe, Jerusalemwatercolor on paper77 x 57 cm (30 x 22 in.)signed lower right

$1,400-1,600

168BENI GASSENBAUERb. 1949 (Israeli)

Anemoneswatercolor on paper38 x 57 cm (15 x 22 in.)signed lower right

$700-900

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169MANÉ KATZ1894-1962 (Ukrainian, French)

Flowersoil on cardboard24 x 18 cm (9 x 7 in.)signed lower right

$4,500-6,000

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170 MOSHE PROPES1922-1985 (Israeli)

Composition, 1955oil on canvas95 x 119 cm (37 x 47 in.)signed and dated lower left

Provenance: Sale: Matsart, March 3, 2011, lot 73.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

$3,000-4,000

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171 LILIANE KLAPISCHb.1933 (Israeli)

Interior with old chair, flower pot and lampoil on canvas117 x 81 cm (46 x 32 in.)signed center rightProvenance: Sale: Matsart, March 3, 2011, lot 130.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

$8,000-12,000

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172TSIBI GEVAb.1951 (Israeli)

Black bird (diptych)oil on canvas160 x 100 cm (63 x 39 in.)

$18,000-22,000

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173IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Contraplaque, 1960oil and mixed mediaon canvas46 x 55 cm (18 x 22 in.)signed and dated lowerleft and signed, datedon the reverse, titled on the stretcher

Provenance:Daniel Weissman collection, Tel Aviv.

$3,500-4,500

174MENASHE KADISHMANb.1932 (Israeli)

Horseiron22 x 27 x 10 cm (9 x 11 x 4 in.)initialled

$2,000-3,000

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175IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1960mixed media on board50 x 66 cm (20 x 26 in.)signed and dated lower left

$3,500-4,500

176ERAN SHAKINEb.1962 (Israeli)

Bird, 1990bronze71 x 34 x 21 cm (28 x 13 x 8 in.)signed, dated and numbered'1/3' lower left

$5,000-7,000

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177IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Black compositionmixed mediaon canvas122 x 122 cm(48 x 48 in.)

$6,000-8,000

178IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1959mixed media on canvas14 x 19 cm (6 x 7 in.)signed and dated onthe stretcher

$1,200-1,500

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179AVIVA URI1927-1989 (Israeli)

Untitled,1968oil on canvas60 x 60 cm (24 x 24 in.)signed and datedlower left

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection of Ur i Lifshitz.

$7,000-9,000

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180AVIVA URI1927-1989 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1969-73oil and mixed media on canvas65 x 65 cm (26 x 26 in.)signed lower left

$15,000-17,000

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181AVIVA URI1927-1989 (Israeli)

Untitledcharcoal and washon paper48 x 68 cm (19 x 27 in.) signed lower right

$2,000-3,000

182 AHARON KAHANA1905-1967 (Israeli)

Martyr, 1963oil on canvas50 x 50 cm (20 x 20 in.)signed in English andin Hebrew and dated lower right, signed, dated and titledon the reverse

Provenance: Private collection, Germany.

$1,000-1,500

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183URI LIFSHITZb.1936 (Israeli)

Untitledoil on canvas90 x 90 cm (35 x 35 in.)signed center right

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

$3,500-4,500

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184 IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Don Quixote, 1957iron55 x 50 x 16 cm (22 x 20 x 6 in.)signed and dated

$6,000-8,000

185 IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Space totem, 1960oil and mixed media on board120 x 80 cm (47 x 31 in.)signed lower right, signedand dated on reverse

Provenance: The Savage Gal lery, London (label on the reverse).Rosenberg collection(label on the reverse).

$12,000-15,000

IMPORTANT COLLECTION, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND

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186 MENASHE KADISHMANb.1932 (Israeli)

Bridge, 1970'saluminium and glass10 x 34 x 2 cm (4 x 13 x 1 in.)initialled three times

$4,000-6,000

187 MENASHE KADISHMANb.1932 (Israeli)

Tower, 1970'sstainless steel and plexiglass18 x 46 x 14 cm (7 x 18 x 6 in.)signed and numbered '2/10'on the base

$3,000-4,000

IMPORTANT COLLECTION, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND

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188 MENASHE KADISHMANb.1932 (Israeli)

Balance, 1965bronze15 x 29 x 7 cm (6 x 11 x 3 in.)signed

$2,500-3,000

189 MENASHE KADISHMANb.1932 (Israeli)

Atlar, 1965bronze24 x 22 x 12 cm (9 x 9 x 5 in.)signed

$2,500-3,000

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190 BELA BRIZELUntitled, 1949oil on canvas41 x 33 cm (16 x 13 in.)

$150-250

192 NAFTALI BEZEMb. 1924 (Israeli)

Man with a plant, 1959oil on masonite90 x 57 cm (35 x 22 in.)signed lower left

$4,000-6,000

191HAGIT LALO1920-2004 (Israeli)

Untitled, 1957oil on canvas mountedon panel34 x 15 cm (13 x 6 in.)signed lower left, signedand dated on reverse

$1,200-1,500

IMPORTANT COLLECTION, OXFORDSHIRE

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193 IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Urim ve-tumim (Orage), c. 1960mixed media on paper51 x 74 cm (20 x 29 in.)signed center right, titled on the reverse

Provenance: Bineth Gal lery, Jerusalem (label on the reverse).

$7,500-8,500

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194 IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Tribute to Kepler, 1972aluminium24 x 17 x 26 cm (9 x 7 x 10 in.)signed and dated

Provenance: Estate of Daniel Fr iedenberg.Private collection, Israel.

$2,800-3,500

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195MENASHE KADISHMANb.1932 (Israeli)

Trees, 1970'saluminum20 x 15 x 102 cm (8 x 6 x 40 in.)signed on the base

$2,800-3,500

196IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Hiram king of Tir, 1987oil and mixed media on board126 x 122 cm (50 x 48 in.)signed and titled on the reverse

$6,000-8,000

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197IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Homage to Goyared painted carton steel220 x 110 x 80 cm(86 x 43 x 31 in.)signed

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Israel. Gift from the artist to the current owner in 1992.

Accompanied by a certificate of authentity signed by the artist and dated October 1, 2010.

$15,000-20,000

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198IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Objet trouve, 1996oil and mixed media on canvas111 x 90 cm (44 x 35 in.)signed and dated lower right

$7,500-8,500

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199URI LIFSHITZ1936-2011 (Israeli)

Untitledbronze162 x 82 x 56 cm(64 x 32 x 22 in.)signed on the base

$2,500-3,500

200URI LIFSHITZ1936-2011 (Israeli)

Untitledbronze137 x 90 x 70 cm (54 x 35 x 28 in.)signed on the base

$2,500-3,500

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201URI LIFSHITZ1936-2011 (Israeli)

Untitledbronze155 x 90 x 40 cm(61 x 35 x 16 in.)signed on the base

$3,500-5,000

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French born collector, Simon Nahmani is a well-established young entrepreneur working in France and Israel. Educated in a culture well rooted in art-history and collecting, Nahmani established himself during the last 4 to 5 years as a young and serious collector of Contemporary Israeli art. Over this short period he built up a well thought out abstract collection of both established and upcoming artists. Belonging to 3 generations of abstract art, the collection’s back bone comprises - one artist from the founder generation of Israeli abstract art, Moshe Kupferman - a mid-generation conceptual artist Michal Neeman and two artists from the younger generation Sharon Poliakine and Alex Kremer. These form a well knotted group that have in common their search for a unique individual style, but if seen in unison are proof of the rich abstract culture that was created here since the creation of Israel.

All the works on auction were exhibited in the major shows for these artists either in the Tel-Aviv or Jerusalem Museums or in their respective galleries.

Michal Naaman (born 1951) is a teacher of art in the Bezalel Accademy of Art in Jerusalem. She lives and works in Tel-Aviv. For the last 3 decades Naaman has been an exponent of a unique idom that infused in Israeli art a new vain which deals with linguistic, psychoanalytic and literary contents. In 1980 she exhibited in New-York at the Bertha Urdang Gallery. In 1982 she represented Israel in the Venice Biennale and in 1983 had a first solo exhibition in the Tel-Aviv Museum of art. Her works are located in all of the important Museums in Israel and in the major collections.

Sharon Poliakine (born 1964) is the Head of Department of Art in the University of Haifa. She lives and works in Ra'anana. Her semi-abstract art in which she combines different materials mostly from nature and dialogues with various traditions has received wide appraisal. She had one man exhibitions in the Tel-Aviv Museum in 2011 and in the Ashdod Art Museum in 2012. Her paintings are in the New-York Public Library and in British Museum, London as well as in the major Israeli collections.

Alex Kremer (born 1966) is a teacher of art in the Bezalel Accademy of Art in Jerusalem. He lives and works in Tel-Aviv. An expressionist artist, he is considered one of the most important avant-garde artists of the younger generation. His works were heralded by the famous Gordon Gallery and have been exhibited in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv Museums.

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202ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

Landscape, 2006oil on canvas135 x 180 cm (53 x 71 in.)signed upper center, signed and dated on the reverse

Provenance: Gal lery Gordon col lection, Tel Aviv.exhibited: Alex Kremer, Selected Works 1996-2007, Gallery Gordon, Tel Aviv,April - May 2007 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 2).Alex Kremer, Valley of Hinnom, Recipient of the Benno Gitter Prize, 2008,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, October 2009 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 75).

$6,000-7,000

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203ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

Man riding a horseoil on canvas100 x 120 cm (39 x 47 in.)signed lower center

Provenance: Gal lery Gordon col lection, Tel Aviv.

$3,000-4,000

SIMON NACHMANI COLLECTION, ISRAEL

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204SHARON POLIAKINEb. 1964 (Israeli)

After the counting, 2008oil on canvas180 x 210 cm (71 x 83 in.)

Provenance: Gordon Gal lery col lection, Tel Aviv.

Literature: Sharon Poliakine, Selected Works, 1994-2008,Gordon gallery, p. 17 (full page illustration in color).

$7,000-8,000

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205ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

Tree, 2007oil on canvas155 x 170 cm (61 x 67 in.)signed lower right and again on the reverseProvenance: Gal lery Gordon col lection, Tel Aviv.exhibited: Alex Kremer, Valley of Hinnom, Recipient of the Benno Gitter Prize, 2008, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, October 2009(full page illustration in color in exhibition catalogue, p. 4).

$5,000-6,000

SIMON NACHMANI COLLECTION, ISRAEL

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206ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

Tree, 2008oil on canvas155 x 165 cm (61 x 65 in.)signed and dated on the reverseProvenance: Gal lery Gordon col lection, Tel Aviv (label on the reverse).exhibited: Alex Kremer, Valley of Hinnom, Recipient of the Benno Gitter Prize, 2008, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, October 2009(full page illustration in color in exhibition catalogue, p. 39).

$7,000-8,000

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207ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

Jerusalem, Valley of Hinnom, 2007-08oil on canvas135 x 150 cm (53 x 59 in.)signed lower center

exhibited: Alex Kremer, Valley of Hinnom, Recipient of the Benno Gitter Prize, 2008, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, October 2009 (full page illustration in color in exhibition catalogue, p. 24).

$7,000-9,000

SIMON NACHMANI COLLECTION, ISRAEL

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208ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

Man walkingoil on canvas155 x 146 cm (61 x 57 in.)signed center leftProvenance: Gordon Gal lery col lection, Tel Aviv.

$4,000-5,000

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209ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

Studio VI, 2005oil on canvas150 x 160 cm (59 x 63 in.)signed and dated lower left

Provenance: Gal lery Gordon col lection, Tel Aviv.

exhibited: Alex Kremer, Valley of Hinnom, Recipient of the Benno GitterPrize, 2008, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, October 2009.

$4,000-5,000

SIMON NACHMANI COLLECTION, ISRAEL

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210ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

Self-portrait in studio, 2004oil on canvas53 x 53 cm (21 x 21 in.)signed upper left, signed and dated on the reverse

Provenance: Gordon Gal lery col lection, Tel Aviv.

$2,000-3,000

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211ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

Self Portrait X, 1999oil on canvas51 x 40 cm (20 x 16 in.)signed lower left, signed and dated on the reverse

Provenance: Gordon Gal lery col lection, Tel Aviv.

$1,500-2,000

SIMON NACHMANI COLLECTION, ISRAEL

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212ALEX KREMERb. 1966 (Israeli)

D'Apres Constable, 2009oil on canvas100 x 100 cm (39 x 39 in.)signed and dated lower left

Provenance: Gordon Gal lery col lection, Tel Aviv.

$4,000-5,000

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213MICHAL NA'AMANb.1951 (Israeli)

To liquid the victim dry, 2009oil and masking tape on canvas140 x 100 cm (55 x 39 in.)signed, dated and titled on the reverse

$5,000-6,000

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214IGAEL TUMARKINb.1933 (Israeli)

Marx, 1999-2001mixed media on board160 x 100 x 20 cm (63 x 39 x 8 in.)signed and dated lower right, titled upper center

$6,000-8,000

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216LEO ROTH1914-2002 (Israeli)

Magician, 1986-91oil on canvas100 x 72 cm (39 x 28 in.) signed lower right, signed, dated and titled on reverse

$1,200-1,500

215LEO ROTH1914-2002 (Israeli)

Village girl, 1970oil on canvas81 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in.) signed upper right, signedand dated on the reverse

$1,000-1,500

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217DAVID REEBb.1952 (Israeli)

Flowersoil on canvas70 x 100 cm (28 x 39 in.)signed in English and Hebrew on the reverse

$3,000-4,000

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218MOSHE ROSENTHALIS1922- 2008 (Lithuanian)

Artistoil on canvas25 x 18 cm (10 x 7 in.)signed upper right

$450-550

219AMOS YASKILb.1935 (Israeli)

Jerusalemoil on canvas50 x 40 cm (20 x 16 in.) signed in English lower rightand in Hebrew lower left

$2,000-2,500

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221MOSHE TAMIR1924-2004 (Israeli)

Loving couples, 1995oil on canvas152 x 127 cm (60 x 50 in.)signed and dated upper right

$18,000-26,000

220MOSHE TAMIR1924-2004 (Israeli)

Man, 2001oil on canvas100 x 80 cm (39 x 31 in.) signed and dated upper right

$6,000-9,000

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223>RAPHAELABECASSISb.1953 (Israeli)

Eliyahu the Prophetacrylic on cardboard119 x 80 cm (47 x 31 in.)signed lower left

$9,000-12,000

<222BEN AVRAMb.1937 (Israeli)

Jacob's ladderoil on canvas35 x 100 cm (14 x 39 in.)signed lower left and again on the reverse

$3,000-4,000

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224MARIANNA KHODAKOVAb.1988 (Israeli)

Lavender field, 2013oil on canvas60 x 50 cm (24 x 20 in.)signed and dated on the reverse

$1,200-1,500

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225MARIANNA KHODAKOVAb.1988 (Israeli)

Seascape with boat, 2013oil on canvas60 x 50 cm (24 x 20 in.)signed and dated on the reverse

$1,200-1,500

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226 THÉO TOBIASSE1927-2012 (Israeli, French)

La dame foraineoil on canvas65 x 54 cm (26 x 21 in.)signed center right, dated center left and titled upper left

$10,000-12,000

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227 GRACIELA RODOBOULANGERb.1935 (Bolivian)

Sonatine, 1989oil on canvas19 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in.)signed and dated lower right, titled on the reverse

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection,Japan.

$2,800-3,500

228 GRACIELA RODOBOULANGERb.1935 (Bolivian)

Cor de chassse, 1989oil on canvas19 x 24 cm (7 x 9 in.)signed and dated lower left,signed, dated and titledon the reverse

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection,Japan.

$2,800-3,500

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229DAVID SHARIRb. 1938 (Israeli)

Summer, 1977acrylic on panel81 x 116 cm (32 x 46 in.)signed in English and Hebrew, dated, titled, located lower right

Provenance: Safrai Gal lery, Jerusalem, Israel .

Literature: David Sharir: Celebrations - Sacred and Secular,Safrai Gallery, 1991, no. 51 (illustrated).

$6,000-8,000

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230DAVID SHARIRb. 1938 (Israeli)

Winter, 1977-78acrylic on panel81 x 116 cm (32 x 46 in.)signed in English and Hebrew, dated, located lower right

Provenance: Safrai Gal lery, Jerusalem, Israel .

Literature: David Sharir: Celebrations - Sacred and Secular,Safrai Gallery, 1991, no. 53 (illustrated).

$6,000-8,000

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231DAVID SHARIRb. 1938 (Israeli)

Spring, 1977acrylic on panel81 x 115 cm (32 x 45 in.)signed in English and Hebrew, dated, titled, located lower left

Provenance: Safrai Gal lery, Jerusalem, Israel .

Literature: David Sharir: Celebrations - Sacred and Secular,Safrai Gallery, 1991, no.52 (illustrated).

$6,000-8,000

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232DAVID SHARIRb. 1938 (Israeli)

Autumn, 1977-80acrylic on panel81 x 116 cm (32 x 46 in.)signed in English and Hebrew, dated, located lower right

Provenance: Safrai Gal lery, Jerusalem, Israel .

Literature: David Sharir: Celebrations - Sacred and Secular,Safrai Gallery, 1991, no.54 (illustrated).

$6,000-8,000

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233 HUGHES CLAUDE PISSARROb.1935 (French)

Deux arbres du cheneoil on canvas50 x 65 cm (20 x 26 in.)signed lower right

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Japan.Private European collection.

$8,000-10,000

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234 HUGHES CLAUDE PISSARROb.1935 (French)

Ancien moulin, Feraodoil on canvas54 x 66 cm (21 x 26 in.)signed lower right,signed again and titled on the reverse

Provenance: Pr ivate col lection, Japan.Private European collection.

$10,000-12,000

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235 MARC CHAGALL1887-1985 (French, Russian)

The Tribe of Zebulon from Twelve Maquettes of Stained Glass Windows for Jerusalemcolor lithograph on arches paper62 x 48 cm (24 x 19 in.)signed lower right, inscribed'épreuve d'artiste' lower left

Literature: Lithographie en couleurs par Charles Sorlier.(C.S. 16).

$6,000-8,000

236 MARC CHAGALL1887-1985 (Russian, French)

Untitled (from Celui qui dit les choses sans rien dire), 1976handcolored etching47 x 36 cm (19 x 14 in.)signed lower right, numbered'H/C IX/XX' lower left

Provenance:Private European collection

$4,000-6,000

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237 PABLO PICASSO1881-1973 (Spanish)

Portrait de Mousquetaire vieillissant, au visage couperosé (from 'La Serie' 347), 1968etching, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 196933 x 25 cm (13 x 10 in.)signed lower right, dated upper right and numbered '15/50' lower left

Literature: G. Bloch, Picasso, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravée lithographie 1904-1967, ed. Kornfeld et Klipstein, Bern, 1971, no. 1732 (illustrated). Baer/Geiser, Bd. VI, 1749 B.b.2.

$8,000-12,000

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238 ARMAN1928-2005 (French, American)

Violin, c. 1985Bronze 60 x 25 x 14 cm (24 x 10 x 6 in.) signed and numbered '4/8', stamped Bocquel on the bottom

$18,000-22,000

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239 ARMAN1928-2005 (French, American)

Double chassis, 1994 bronze with brown patina, foundry mark 'Bocquel pd.' 29 x 18 x 10 cm (11 x 7 x 4 in.) signed and numbered 'HC 6/10'

$4,000-6,000

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240YAACOV AGAMb.1928 (Israeli)

Star of David agamograph 17 x 14 cm (7 x 6 in.) signed lower right and numbered '9/99' lower left

$600-800

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241 YAACOV AGAMb.1928 (Israeli)

Double sided dynamic agamograph, 1971oil on metal8 x 12 x 3 cm (3 x 5 x 1 in.)signed, dated and located on the bottom

$16,000-20,000

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242YAACOV AGAMb.1928 (Israeli)

Evening, 1967-1969oil on metal on wood base 54 x 60 cm (21 x 24 in.) signed, dated, titled and located both in English and in Hebrew on the reverse

Provenance: Jack Stein col lection (label on the reverse). Goldman's Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel. Private collection, acquired from above in June 1970.Sale: Sotheby's New York, December 14, 2011, lot 60.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

exhibited: Agam in Los Angeles, Skirball Museum, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, October-November, 1973(illustrated in exhibition catalogue, p. 6., no. 10).Agam in Palm Springs, Palm Springs Desert Museum,Palm Springs, California, January-March, 1976(label on the reverse).

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signedby the artist and dated July 2, 1970.

$50,000-70,000

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243 YAACOV AGAMb.1928 (Israeli)

Eֹtude carre, 1965oil on aluminium40 x 60 cm (16 x 24 in.)signed, dated, titled, located 'Paris' and dedicated 'to Nate and Jaqueline with friendship, Agam' in English and Hebrew on the reverse

Provenance: Mar lborough-Gerson Gal lery, New York.Collection of Nicolas Landau and Jacqueline Goldman, acquired from above in 1966.Private European collection.

$40,000-60,000

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244YAACOV AGAMb.1928 (Israeli)

Ligne form, 1965-67painted wood64 x 64 x 8 cm (25 x 25 x 3 in.)signed, dated and titled on the reverse

Provenance: Prof. Chaim Gamzu. Pr ivate col lection Israel

$80,000-120,000

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245YAACOV AGAMb.1928 (Israeli)

Threads of lifeplexiglass and thread of colored wool28 x 6 x 4 cm (11 x 3 x 2 in.)signed lower right

Provenance: Daniel Weissman col lection,Tel Aviv.

$3,000-4,000

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246 YAACOV AGAMb.1928 (Israeli)

Movement in yellow, 1974painted metal and wood107 x 145 x 6 cm (42 x 57 x 2 in.)signed, titled and dated on the reverseProvenance: Goldman's Art Gal lery, Haifa.The Branco Weiss collection, acquired directly from the above in 1979. Private European collection.

$80,000-120,000

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Impressionist, Modern &Contemporary Fine Art Auction

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I hereby request that MATSART bid on my behalf on the lots as listed above, yet not to exceed the maximum bid that I have fixed for each lot as above. I understand that if I am the successful bidder, I am obligated to pay in addition to the hammer price a buyer’s premium in the sum of 20%. To this will be added local taxes where applicable. Please see conditions of sale. It is my understanding that my bid is in accordance and subject to the conditions of purchase as published in this catalogue. In order to insure acceptance of the bids, potential buyers bidding for the first time with MATSART are requested to furnish us with references. Please refer to paragraphs 6 and 11 of the conditions of purchase.

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הנני מבקש ומאשר בזאת כי מצארט מכירות פומביות יגישו בשמי את הצעותיי עבור הלוטים המפורטים לעיל. כל זאת בתנאי שההצעה לא תעבור את התקרה המקסימאלית שקבעתי לכל אחד מהלוטים המצויינים. אני מבין ומאשר כי במידה ואזכה בלוטים, אהיה מחוייב לשלם בנוסף למחיר הפטיש גם עמלת קונה בסך 20%. בנוסף על כך אני מתחייב לשלם מע”מ כחוק ו/ או מיסים נוספים כפי שידרש. אני מאשר כי ההצעה היא בהתאם ובכפוף לתנאי הרכישה כפי שפורסמו בקטלוג. על מנת להבטיח את קבלת ההצעות, קונים פוטנציאליים המגישים הצעה ראשונה לבית המכירות, מתבקשים להמציא המלצות בהתאם

לסעיפים מס' 6 ומס' 11 בתנאי הרכישה.

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JUDAICA FINE ARTSELLING EXHIBITION

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1. The auction will be conducted by the auctioneer's representatives of Matsart Auctioneers & Appraisers (Matsart). Unless otherwise specified, Matsart is acting as an agent on behalf of the seller. The contract for the sale of the property is between the seller and the buyer.

2. The auctioneer has sole discretion and authority at any time to determine the winner in the auction or to withdraw any lot or lots from the sale or to re-offer and resell any lot, all according to his sole judgment, including yet not limited to prior to the auction, during the auction, and following the auction. Purchasing an item is legitimate only when the auctioneer lowers his hammer and announces a card number of a participant in the room or a bidder in writing or a bidder by phone or by internet. Notwithstanding the above, it is the auctioneer’s sole judgment to reopen a lot and/or cancel a sale. The auctioneer reserves the right to reject any bid.

3. The prices quoted in the catalogue are estimate prices of the lots. These prices are estimates, normally different from the minimum prices. A sale will be only at the minimum price or above, all according to the auctioneer’s discretion. If, in the auctioneer’s opinion, any opening bid is below the reserve of the lot, he may withdraw the lot from the sale. Following an opening bid, the auctioneer may reject further bids if, in his opinion the advance is not sufficient.

4. All lots are sold "as is". Neither Matsart nor the seller makes any express or implied warranty of any kind with respect to the description, attribution, literature, former owners, period, provenance, condition and/or frame concerning the lots offered in the auction. No statement in the catalogue or in the sale or the invoice or the bill of sale given to purchasers shall be deemed such a warranty. All bidders are responsible to examine the work and its condition and its authenticity prior to bidding. It is important and recommended to examine all items before bidding. The details of this exhibition are published in the catalogue.

5. Condition reports and catalog entries are to be used as guidance only by the buyers. Prior to bidding, bidders should personally inspect the lots. Following the auction, if the bidder has questions regarding authenticity and wishes to show the work to a recognized expert (acceptable to Matsart), the item must be paid for in full and the buyer must arrange (at his expense) to show the work to the expert and receive a response within 30 days following date of sale. Prior arrangements must be made with Matsart to allow that payment be withheld from the seller. Should the expert declare that the painting is not authentic, Matsart will refund money paid for lot (less expenses) under the condition that confirmation of lack of authenticity is received within 30 days of sale. To remove all doubt, following 30 days, Matsart will have no responsibility.

6. All potential bidders must register prior to bidding by completing all necessary registration forms and provide proper identification. Matsart reserves the right to request bank and/or other financial references. Upon registration, potential bidders will receive a paddle number, which serves as identification in the event that the participant is the successful high bidder of any lot in the sale.

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8. Matsart accepts absentee bids with no additional fee. Attached herewith a form enabling buyers unable to be present at the time of auction to make their bids. By this form potential buyers authorize Matsart representatives to represent them during the auction in the interest of purchasing and/or to contact them by telephone to allow to bid during the auction by telephone. This service is given at no additional fee, beyond the buyer’s premium as stated below. A bid cannot be revoked in any form and is an obligation for purchasing. We will take all reasonable measures to process the bid, yet take no liability in the event that for any reason a bid was not processed. Bids

can be delivered via fax: +972-2-6257779 or by email: [email protected]. Auctions are conducted in U.S. dollars. Payment is to be made in US$.

However, payment can be accepted in Euros or in N.I.S., according to the high rate of exchange published by Bank Leumi Le'israel on the day of the sale, or the day of the payment, the higher of the two.

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11. Unless otherwise indicated, all lots are offered subject to a reserve price. This reserve will not exceed the low estimate. The reserve price is the minimum price for which the item will sell and is confidential. The auctioneer may open bidding on any lot by placing a bid on behalf of the seller. The auctioneer may further bid on behalf of the seller, up to the amount of the reserve by placing successive or consecutive bids for a lot, or by placing bids in response to other bidders.

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INDEX

Abecassis, Raphael 223Agam, Yaacov 240 - 246Ardon, Mordechai 103Arikha, Avigdor 77, 97 - 100, 154, 155Arman 238, 239Avni, Aharon 39Axelrod, Meir 151Bak, Samuel 136 - 142Baruch, Ilan 162, 163Ben Avram 222Benaroya, Albert 165, 166Bergner, Yosl 124 - 135Bezem, Naftali 143 - 145, 192Blum, Ludwig 50 - 53Boulanger, Graciela Rodo 227, 228Brizel, Bela 190Castel, Moshe 22 - 28, 69, 71, 118, 120Chagall, Marc 235, 236Charuvi, Shmuel 1 - 3Eisenscher, Yaacov 49Enkaoua, Daniel 158, 164Feingersh, Oded 160Frenkel Frenel, Yitzhak 41 - 45Gassenbauer, Beni 167 168Geva, Tsibi 172Gilboa, Nahum 146Gilboa, Rachel 147, 148Gross, Michael 109 - 113Gutman, Nachum 18 - 21Janco, Marcel 78, 79Kadishman, Menashe 174, 186 - 189, 195Kahana, Aharon 101, 102, 182Katz, Mane 169Khodakova, Marianna 224, 225Klapisch, Liliane 171Kossonogi, Joseph 12Kremer, Alex 202, 203, 205 - 212Lalo, Hagit 191Levanon, Mordechai 32, 46 - 48Levy, Ra›anan 161Lifshitz, Uri 183, 199 - 201Litvinovsky, Pinchas 16, 17Lubin, Arieh 13, 31

Mairovitch, Zvi 91, 92, 94, 108Malnovitzer, Zvi 152, 153Marcus, Kaete Ephraim 11, 38, 40, 89, 90Na'aman, Michal 213Naton, Avraham 61 - 63, 104Nikel, Lea 95, 96, 105 - 107Okashi, Avshalom 116, 117, 119Ozeri, Yigal 156Paldi, Israel 14, 15, 70Pann, Abel 7 - 10Picasso, Pablo 237, Pissarro, Hughes Claude 233, 234Poliakine, Sharon 204Propes, Moshe 170Raskin, Saul 149, 150Rauchwerger, Jan 157Reeb, David 217Reisman, Ori 114, 115Rosenthalis, Moshe 218Roth, Leo 215, 216Rubin, Reuven 54 - 60Schlesinger, Shmuel 66 - 68Schloss, Ruth 80 - 88Sebba, Shalom 64, 65Shakine, Eran 176Sharir, David 229 - 232Shemi, Menachem 33 - 37Simon, Yohanan 72 - 76Streichman, Yehezkel 121, 122Struck, Hermann 4 - 6Tamir, Moshe 220, 221Ticho, Anna 29, 30Tobiasse, Théo 226Tumarkin, Igael 173, 175, 177, 178,

184, 185, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, 214Uri, Aviva 179 - 181Wexler, Yaacov 93Yaskil, Amos 219Zaritsky, Joseph 123Zohar, Israel 159

BENJAMIN MIZRAHI Production Manager, [email protected] LEON GABAYEV Catalog Design | Studio Graphoto, [email protected] ERDE, Photography, Tel Aviv | CARRY WHITTIER, Photography, New York

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