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ISRAELI & INTERNATIONAL FINE ART AUCTION 20 DEC 2015 7:30 PM

ISRAELI & INTERNATIONAL FINE ART AUCTION TEL AVIV, DECEMBER 20, 2015, 7:30 PM SALE 139

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All lots are sold “as is” and subject to a reserve. Please review the conditions as they appear in the rear of the catalogue or contact us with any questions you may have. Please note that some of the works are located abroad where additional import charges may apply. Please contact our staff prior to bidding to obtain information and confirm location.

PART 1 - ISRAELI ART

LUDWIG BLUM 1891-1975 (Israeli)

Misgav Ladakh - Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem

oil on canvas 76 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.) signed in English lower left, signed in Hebrew and located 'Jerusalem' lower right Mira Chen, the artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$ 15,000 - 20,000

LUDWIG BLUM 1891-1975 (Israeli)

Dead Sea landscape with camels, 1941 oil on canvas 55 x 75 cm (21 x 29 in.) signed in English lower left, signed in Hebrew, dated and located 'Jerusalem' lower right Mira Chen, the artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$ 22,000 - 25,000

LUDWIG BLUM 1891-1975 (Israeli)

Marketplace in Jerusalem, 1958 oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm (20 x 23 in.) signed and dated lower left

PROVENANCE: Sale: Gordon Gallery, January16, 2000, lot 48. Elbit Imaging Ltd. Collection. Mira Chen, the artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$ 16,000 - 18,000

LUDWIG BLUM 1891-1975 (Israeli)

Old Jerusalem market scene, 1953-55 oil on canvas 25 x 35 cm (10 x 14 in.) signed and dated lower left

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Australia. Mira Chen, the artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$ 8,000 - 9,000

LUDWIG BLUM 1891-1975 (Israeli)

View of Jerusalem, 1951

oil on canvas 60 x 100 cm (23 x 39 in.) signed in English lower left, signed and dated in Hebrew lower right PROVENANCE: Sale: Matsart, June 30, 2010, lot 55. Mira Chen, the artist's granddaughter, has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$ 38,000 - 50,000

SHMUEL CHARUVI 1897-1965 (Israeli)

Tiberias lake, 1948

watercolor on paper 16 x 21 cm (6 x 8 in.) signed and dated lower right

$2,800-3,500

SHMUEL CHARUVI 1897-1965 (Israeli)

Fruits

watercolor on paper 12 x 17 cm (5 x 7 in.)

$1,200 - 1,500

1897-1965 (Israeli)

Landscape in the Judean Hills

Atlit

SHMUEL CHARUVI

watercolor on paper 13 x 19 cm (5 x 7 in.) signed lower right

$1,200 - 1,500

SHMUEL CHARUVI watercolor on paper 9 x 16 cm (4 x 6 in.) signed lower right

$1,200 - 1,500

SHMUEL CHARUVI 1897-1965 (Israeli)

Haifa, 1948-49

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

$ 3,800 - 4,500

SHMUEL CHARUVI 1897-1965 (Israeli)

Seascape

watercolor on paper 11 x 15 cm (4 x 6 in.) signed in English lower left and in Hebrew lower right

$ 1,200 - 1,500

12v

ABEL PANN 1883-1963 (Latvian, Israeli)

Rebeccah

pastel on paper 42 x 47 cm (16 x 18 in.) signed and titled lower right, remnants of an earlier signature lower left PROVENANCE: (Probably) Mr. Grossman, Tel Aviv. Private collection, acquired from the above, c.1950. Thence by descent. Private collection.

$ 14,000 - 18,000

JOSEPH KOSSONOGI 1908-1981 (Israeli)

Horse and a couple, 1925 oil on canvas 23 x 30 cm (9 x 12 in.) signed and dated lower left

PROVENANCE: Gaby and Ami Brown collection. Private European collection.

$ 1,800 - 2,200

recto

ARIEH LUBIN 1897-1980 (Israeli)

Workers, 1928 (recto), Abstract (verso) oil on masonite 38 x 45 cm (15 x 18 in.) signed and dated lower left

PROVENANCE: Sale: Matsart, May 18, 2008, lot 419. Private collection, Tel Aviv.

$ 9,000 - 12,000

verso

15v

NACHUM GUTMAN 1898-1980 (Israeli)

Jaffa port, 1940's

oil on cardboard 50 x 65 cm (20 x 25 in.) signed in English lower right and in Hebrew lower left PROVENANCE: Private collection, acquired directly from the artist in 1960's, Israel. Private collection, USA.

$ 24,000 - 28,000

16v

NACHUM GUTMAN 1898-1980 (Israeli)

Haifa port

watercolor and pencil on paper 50 x 64 cm (20 x 25 in.) signed in English and Hebrew lower right

$ 8,500 - 9,500

NACHUM GUTMAN 1898-1980 (Israeli)

Carriage in Tel Aviv oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 in.) signed lower left

PROVENANCE: Gallery Rosenfeld, Tel Aviv (label on the reverse). Private collection, Tel Aviv.

$ 35,000 - 45,000

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, and graduated at the age of 16 in 1925. Feeling he could accomplish more and following the outlook of Israeli artists at the time, he moved to Paris in 1927 where 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 works have remained from his first years in Paris. Most of them were lost when the artist’s pictures were taken from his atelier during his visit 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. Others were sold sporadically to people whom he met in Paris or given as payment to his landlord. Before us is the rare occasion of seeing in auction a masterpiece from this early period recently unveiled in Southern France. After his successful exhibition in London in 1928, Castel embarked on several landscapes and genre paintings of Israel. The young artist, homesick, and short of money fell back on childhood memories of walks with his mother and sisters in the Judean Hills around Jerusalem. From these memories stem the well-known scenes of the ‘Dejeuner sur l’herbe’ (Matsart sales 128 lot 22) as well as genre scenes of Sheep-herders or Women at the well. The richly detailed genre scene on auction, presents two shepherds resting after a day’s work in the summer heat- one sitting on a small eastern rug playing the flute the other, seen from the back, standing cane stretched behind his shoulders. In the background is a sprawling landscape of the Judean Hills in which are seen several women carrying water-jugs up a meandering path to a village at the top of a hill. This is a typical Early-Israeli style painting, showing the artists interest in depicting a primordial experience that reveals the fascination of the new comers with the newly met views and experiences of the land of Israel. Only that Moshe Castel was not new to the land, he was born and bred here. The village portrayed is the village of Ein Karem at the outskirts of Jerusalem which Castel knew from his walks with his mother and the details of the Church bell-tower and the olive trees are realistic details from the entrance of the village. The idyllic scene depicted according to the set stylistic rules of the Eretz Israel school- the strong Israeli light, bright colors, well defined figures and blurred background- is tempered by new French influences. This can be discerned in a new brown and light blue palette adopted by the artist, which adds a lighter touch to the Oriental looking scene, and in the well thought out composition. A tree placed in the front focuses the viewer’s attention on the shepherds in the front, but also cuts the landscape into two sides thus calling the viewer to follow the water carrier on the left slowly up the meandering path. Castel completes the composition with the shepherd to the right who according to a classical dictum is set, in contrast to the shepherd to the left, with his back facing us looking towards the horizon as an explorer examining the scene. Here we see Castel’s practice of his studies from the classical masters in the Louvre. But with all the clarity of composition and rich details it is the oriental figures, olive trees and sheep and the colorful village houses that blend together in what the researcher Gidon Ofrat called a Persian tapestry of light and color. Oren Migdal

18v

MOSHE CASTEL 1909-1991 (Israeli)

Shepherd in Judean Hills, 1931 oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm (21 x 18 in.) signed and dated lower right

PROVENANCE: Private collection Mr. Sam Spanien, 1950. Thence by descent. Bought directly from the artist by Mr. Spanien and his wife.

$ 65,000 - 90,000

YITZHAK FRENKEL FRENEL 1899-1981 (Israeli)

Safed landscape

oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm (18 x 21 in.) signed lower left

$ 4,500 - 5,500

MENACHEM SHEMI 1897-1951 (Israeli)

An artisan man before his shop, c.1942 oil on canvas 28 x 35 cm (11 x 14 in.) signed lower right

$ 4,000 - 5,000

MENACHEM SHEMI 1897-1951 (Israeli)

Safed landscape, 1950 oil on canvas 45 x 62 cm (18 x 24 in.) signed and dated lower right

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Jerusalem. Daliah Belkine has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$ 26,000 - 35,000

22v

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

The Road to Galilee

oil on canvas 65 x 82 cm (25 x 32 in.) signed lower left, titled on the stretcher PROVENANCE: Estate of Abraham Biller.

$ 65,000 - 80,000

23v

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

The fisherman of Galilee oil on canvas 41 x 33 cm (16 x 13 in.) signed lower right, signed and titled on the stretcher

PROVENANCE: Private collection.

$ 45,000 - 50,000

24v

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

Bouquet of calla lilies, 1937 oil on canvas 82 x 60 cm (32 x 23 in.) signed lower left

PROVENANCE: Anonimius sale: Sotheby's New York, October 8, 1986, lot 260. Stern Gallery, Tel Aviv, acquired at the above sale. Private collection, acquired from the above in 1987. Sale: Christie's New York, November 4, 2009, lot 337. Private European collection, acquired at the above sale. Private collection. EXHIBITION: Rubin, Retrospective exhibition, Forty Years of Painting in Israel, The Tel Aviv Museum, Spring 1955, n.66 (titled Flowers). Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Rubin Museum Foundation, signed by Carmela Rubin, dated September 15, 2014.

$ 65,000 - 80,000

25v

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

Road to Ein Karem, c.1937 oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm (24 x 20 in.) signed lower center

PROVENANCE: Private collection, South Africa. Thence by descent. Private collection. Accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by Esther Rubin, artists wife, dated March 16, 1984. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Rubin Museum Foundation, signed by Carmela Rubin, dated November 10, 2014, numbered 0003.

$ 65,000 - 80,000

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

Mimosas and black irises

oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm (32 x 25 in.) signed lower left, signed and titled on the stretcher

$ 85,000 - 100,000

27v

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

Shepherd boy, 1967

oil on canvas 46 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.) signed in lower left, signed and titled on the stretcher PROVENANCE: Estate of Ruth Bank, Jenkintown, PA, c.1975.

$ 38,000 - 45,000

28v

REUVEN RUBIN 1893-1974 (Israeli)

Picking the olives, 1964

oil on canvas 39 x 48 cm (15 x 19 in.) signed lower right, signed, dated and titled on the stretcher PROVENANCE: Parke Galleries, Ltd., Tel Aviv. Private collection, acquired from the above c.1970-75. Thence by descent. Private collection. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Rubin Museum Foundation, signed by Carmela Rubin, dated November 23, 2014, numbered 0012.

$ 45,000 - 55,000

YEHEZKEL STREICHMAN 1906-1993 (Israeli)

Tiberias, 1945

oil on canvas 63 x 58 cm (25 x 23 in.) signed lower right, signed and dated on the reverse

$ 30,000 - 35,000

MORDECHAI LEVANON 1901-1968 (Israeli)

Jerusalem from Mount of Olives, 1943 oil on canvas 65 x 74 cm (25 x 29 in.) signed and dated lower right

$ 14,000 - 16,000

MORDECHAI LEVANON 1901-1968 (Israeli)

Galilee landscape, 1945 oil on canvas 38 x 55 cm (15 x 21 in.) signed and dated lower right

$ 9,000 - 12,000

YEHEZKEL STREICHMAN 1906-1993 (Israeli)

View from the window, 1970 watercolor on paper 78 x 58 cm (30 x 23 in.) signed and dated lower left

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Tel Aviv.

$ 1,800 - 2,200

AVIGDOR STEMATSKY 1908-1989 (Israeli)

Abstract, 1977

watercolor on paper 67 x 84 cm (26 x 33 in.) signed and dated lower right PROVENANCE: Private collection, Tel Aviv.

$ 750 - 850

34v

JOSEPH ZARITSKY 1891-1985 (Israeli)

Jerusalem, 1933

watercolor and pencil on cardboard 45 x 60 cm (18 x 23 in.) signed in English and Hebrew and dated lower left PROVENANCE: Estate of Renee L. Rupert Granville Grossman. Private European collection.

$ 7,000 - 9,000

AVIGDOR STEMATSKY 1908-1989 (Israeli)

Urban landscape, 1940's watercolor on paper 37 x 51 cm (14 x 20 in.) signed lower right

$ 1,200 - 1,500

Mordecai Ardon was born in Poland in 1896. Between 1921 and 1924 he studied at the Bauhaus Art School in Weimar Germany, but with the rise to power of the Nazi party he fled to Palestine in 1933, where he made his home. After the Second World War he learnt of the loss of his entire family, except for one brother who managed to escape. This experience had a strong repercussion on his life and work. Ardon’s ‘Last Game of the Scarecrow’ (1962) portrays the frail figure of a scarecrow swaying backwards on a black neutral background. The scarecrow wearing what seems to be a suit made of pieces of wood and cloth, is depicted at close range from his waist upwards. His head is missing or hidden by the hands. A few playing cards thrown below the figure possibly hinting to a dramatic end of a card game. The meaning of Ardons painting is not easily understood by the modern spectator. To a viewer unfamiliar with Ardon’s complex symbolism what might strike at first sight is the irony of the mute figure of a scarecrow playing cards. A second fact which the viewer will discern- that the figure is made out of scraps of wood and cloth- brings it though within a sphere closer to Ardons life and beliefs, that of puppets, the theatre and more closely to acting. Having a keen sense for the dramatic Ardon liked sad theatrical figures and particularly Harlequins and Clowns. He identified himself with the taciturn tragic figure of the clown which in time symbolized for him the tragedy of life and man’s fall. (Vishny, Ardon, pp. 37-39) The scarecrow in Ardon’s symbolism has a similar meaning to the clown, “Scarecrows dance, but they are lonely and the dance is joyless... they play games but games they are doomed to lose” (Vishny,p. 37) The ‘Last game of the scarecrow’ has a darker and deeper meaning which is set in the battlefield. As in Ardon’s famous House of Cards (1955-56) the game cards symbolize kings and generals whom have lost their identity and dignity on the battlefield and lack “firmness and splendor”. (Arturo Schwartz, Mordecai Ardon, pp. 43) The scarecrow is the lowest and less fortunate character of the human comedy, him who is ‘less firm’ and who “will lose even the game of solitaire” (Vishny, pp. 37). Unlike the clown he has though a life connected to nature, to which the Ace of Clubs might hint at. The open wind swept field in which the scarecrow ‘lives’, probably the site of the battles of the Second World War which left a vivid impression on Ardon , there is also the field where the corpses of the dead remain at the end of the battle and the scarecrow is their only taciturn viewer. He stands as a hollowed out presence much as is the corpse of the dead Isaac in Sarah (1947). Unlike Isaac who represents the people of Israel, the Scarecrow represents humanity and the Western World that remained silent during the massacre of Jews in the Second World War. The artist’s choice to depict the scarecrow as a classical torso (without head and legs) gives it its final touch- a more dignified and less morbid effect. It is the final humoristic touch of an artist who looks back to Greek Art to lift the figure of a scarecrow made of scraps of cloth to the level of a human being although somewhat unfortunate and destitute nature. Oren Migdal

MORDECHAI ARDON 1896-1992 (Israeli)

The last game of the scarecrow, 1962

oil on canvas 55 x 40 cm (21 x 16 in.) signed and dated upper left, dated and dedicated on the stretcher PROVENANCE: Important Israeli Collection. EXHIBITION: Ardon Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, May 25 October 14, 1985, catalogue n.66 (label on the reverse). LITERATURE: Michele Vishny, Mordechai Ardon, New York, 1973, p.38, n.20 (full page illustration).

$ 200,000 - 250,000

37v

SHALOM SEBBA 1897-1975 (Israeli)

Archaolopie III (Scherben), 1961

tempera on cardboard 37 x 47 cm (14 x 18 in.) signed lower left LITERATURE: Maler und Werkmann, Siegfried Shalom Sebba, Verlag Thiele & Schwarz,1981, p.240 n.141 (full page illustration).

$ 6,000 - 8,000

MOSHE CASTEL 1909-1991 (Israeli)

Hallelujah, 1950

oil on canvas 91 x 63 cm (35 x 25 in.) signed lower left PROVENANCE: Antonio Raimo Gallery, Atlanta (label on the reverse). Private collection, USA.

$ 15,000 - 18,000

39v

MOSHE CASTEL 1909-1991 (Israeli)

Hallelujah

oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm (20 x 25 in.) signed lower left PROVENANCE: Important collection, Texas.

$ 15,000 - 18,000

MOSHE CASTEL 1909-1991 (Israeli)

Tehilim

gouache on paper mounted on canvas 20 x 52 cm (8 x 20 in.) signed lower right

$ 2,500 - 3,000

ISRAEL PALDI 1892-1979 (Israeli)

Two fishermen, 1929 watercolor on paper 22 x 25 cm (9 x 10 in.) signed and dated lower left

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

$ 7,500 - 9,000

42v

ISRAEL PALDI 1892-1979 (Israeli)

Pioneers and tents, 1920's watercolor on paper 20 x 23 cm (8 x 9 in.) signed lower left

PROVENANCE: Michael and Judy Steinhardt Collection. Private European collection.

$ 3,800 - 4,500

YOHANAN SIMON 1905-1976 (Israeli)

Family in the Kibbutz, 1950 oil on masonite 35 x 45 cm (14 x 18 in.) signed and dated lower left

PROVENANCE: Private collection, USA. Sale: Matsart, December 1, 2009, Lot 46.

$ 22,000 - 26,000

MENACHEM SHEMI 1897-1951 (Israeli)

Women in the village, 1950's oil on canvas 38 x 55 cm (15 x 21 in.) signed lower right

$ 9,000 - 12,000

MEIR AXELROD 1902-1970 (Russian, Israeli)

Meal in the field, 1931 oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm (28 x 36 in.) signed and dated lower right

PROVENANCE: Gaby and Ami Brown Collection.

$ 8,000 - 12,000

MOSHE MATUS (MATUSOVSKI) 1908-1958 (Israeli)

Hora in the kibbutz oil on cardboard 68 x 52 cm (27 x 20 in.) signed lower right

$ 4,500 - 6,000

PINCHAS LITVINOVSKY 1894-1984 (Israeli)

'Debka' (oriental dance), 1920's oil on canvas 38 x 44 cm (15 x 17 in.) inscribed and located 'Jerusalem' on the reverse

Gideon Ofrat has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

$ 12,000 - 18,000

48v

YOSL BERGNER b.1920 (Israeli)

Return to the radish, 1970

oil on canvas 33 x 25 cm (13 x 10 in.) signed and dated lower left and again on the reverse, titled on the strecther

$ 5,500 - 6,500

YOSL BERGNER b.1920 (Israeli)

Apples and knife, 1965 oil on canvas 23 x 32 cm (9 x 12 in.) signed and dated upper left

$ 4,000 - 5,000

YOSL BERGNER b.1920 (Israeli)

Kaparot, c.1949

oil on board 50 x 62 cm (20 x 24 in.) signed lower right PROVENANCE: Elbit Imaging Ltd. Collection.

$ 25,000 - 32,000

51v

YOSL BERGNER b.1920 (Israeli)

The masks of yesteryear

oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm (20 x 27 in.) signed lower left, signed and titled on the reverse

$ 6,000 - 7,000

b.1920 (Israeli)

Musicians

Still life on white table

$ 1600 - 1,800

$ 7,500 - 9,000

YOSL BERGNER oil on paper mounted on canvas 23 x 27 cm (9 x 11 in.) sighed lower left, signed and titled on the reverse

YOSL BERGNER oil on canvas 41 x 46 cm (16 x 18 in.) signed lower right, signed and titled on the reverse

YOSL BERGNER b.1920 (Israeli)

Red flowers

oil on canvasboard 35 x 27 cm (14 x 11 in.) signed lower right, signed and titled on the reverse

YOSL BERGNER b.1920 (Israeli)

Fiddler

oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm (31 x 23 in.) signed lower left, signed and titled on the reverse Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist and stamped by the Yosl Bergner studio, numbered 5006681Y, dated December 16, 2014.

$ 8,500 - 10,000

YOSL BERGNER b.1920 (Israeli)

Tide and ebb

oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm (20 x 27 in.) signed lower left, signed and titled on the reverse

$ 7,000 - 8,000

$ 2,500 - 2,800

MARCEL JANCO 1895-1984 (Israeli)

Still life with bananas oil on cardboard 35 x 50 cm (14 x 20 in.) signed upper left

$ 2,800 - 3,500

58v

MARCEL JANCO 1895-1984 (Israeli)

Rooster and sun, 1960

oil and collage on canvasboard 50 x 70 cm (20 x 27 in.) signed lower right PROVENANCE: Artist's studio, (label on the reverse). Elbit Imaging Ltd. Collection.

$ 5,000 - 7,000

MARCEL JANCO 1895-1984 (Israeli)

Shofar and menorah oil on cardboard 35 x 50 cm (14 x 20 in.) signed lower right

$ 2,800 - 3,800

MARCEL JANCO 1895-1984 (Israeli)

Don Quixote

oil on cardboard 33 x 50 cm (13 x 20 in.) signed lower right

$ 3,500 - 4,500

MARCEL JANCO 1895-1984 (Israeli)

Menorah, 1964

oil on canvas 60 x 81 cm (23 x 32 in.) signed in English and Hebrew lower left, signed, dated and titled on the stretcher PROVENANCE: Kaminsky Family collection, Tel Aviv.

$ 9,000 - 12,000

YITZHAK FRENKEL FRENEL 1899-1981 (Israeli)

Safed landscape, 1950's oil on canvasboard 23 x 18 cm (9 x 7 in.) signed lower right

$ 2,500 - 3,000

YITZHAK FRENKEL FRENEL 1899-1981 (Israeli)

Safed, c.1950

oil on canvas 57 x 48 cm (22 x 19 in.) signed lower left

$ 4,000 - 5,000

YITZHAK FRENKEL FRENEL 1899-1981 (Israeli)

Rabbi with torah

oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm (21 x 18 in.) signed lower left

$ 5,500 - 7,000

65v

YITZHAK FRENKEL FRENEL 1899-1981 (Israeli)

Klezmers

oil on canvas 22 x 27 cm (9 x 11 in.) signed lower right

$ 1,500 - 1,800

MOSHE CASTEL 1909-1991 (Israeli)

Ballerina, 1930's

oil on panel 50 x 30 cm (20 x 12 in.) signed upper left

$ 5,500 - 6,500 65

67v

SAMUEL BAK b.1933 (Israeli)

Labyrinthe II, 1964-65

oil on canvas 95 x 115 cm (37 x 45 in.) signed lower center, signed, dated and titled on the stretcher PROVENANCE: Sale: Christie's Tel Aviv, April 10, 1999, lot 82. Elbit Imaging Ltd. Collection.

$ 12,000 - 15,000

SAMUEL BAK b.1933 (Israeli)

No, 1970

oil on canvas 41 x 41 cm (16 x 16 in.) signed lower left PROVENANCE: Hadassa Klachkin Gallery. Purchased from the above by the previous owner. Private collection.

$ 8,000 - 10,000

SAMUEL BAK b.1933 (Israeli)

Chess

oil on canvas 33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 in.) signed lower right

$ 3,500 - 4,000

SAMUEL BAK b.1933 (Israeli)

Moses and Aharon in the desert oil on canvas 55 x 41 cm (21 x 16 in.) signed lower right

$ 10,000 - 12,000

NAFTALI BEZEM b. 1924 (Israeli)

Couple in Judean Hills landscape

oil on canvas 74 x 50 cm (29 x 20 in.) signed in English and Hebrew lower left

$ 5,500 - 6,500

AVRAHAM OFEK 1935-1990 (Israeli)

Industrial landscape, 1960 oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm (18 x 21 in.) signed lower right, signed and dated on the reverse

$ 1,800 - 2,000

73v

NAFTALI BEZEM b.1924 (Israeli)

Shabbat candles and fish oil on canvas 116 x 89 cm (45 x 35 in.) signed lower left

$ 8,000 - 12,000

74v

MICHAEL ARGOV 1920-1982 (Israeli)

Interior with oranges, 1950 oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm (32 x 25 in.) signed and dated lower left, signed, dated and titled on the reverse

$ 9,000 - 12,000

75v

MOSHE MOKADY 1902-1975 (Israeli)

Portrait of a young woman oil on board 30 x 23 cm (12 x 9 in.) signed lower left

$ 2,800 - 3,500

76v

RUTH SCHLOSS 1922-2013 (Israeli)

Three women

oil on canvas 55 x 82 cm (21 x 32 in.) signed in English lower left and in Hebrew lower right

$ 3,800 - 4,500

77v

RUTH SCHLOSS 1922-2013 (Israeli)

Portrait of young girl oil on canvas 65 x 50 cm (25 x 20 in.) signed lower right

$ 3,600 - 4,200

78v

AVIGDOR ARIKHA 1929-2010 (Israeli)

Grater and vegetable, 1984 oil on canvas 35 x 50 cm (14 x 20 in.) signed and dated lower right

PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist. Marlborough Gallery, London. Private collection.

$ 35,000 - 40,000

AVIGDOR ARIKHA 1929-2010 (Israeli)

View from the street, 1994

oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm (25 x 32 in.) signed upper left, dated '5 VII 94' on the reverse PROVENANCE: Gaby and Ami Brown collection. Private collection, Israel.

$ 65,000 - 80,000

80v