Property from the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

MANÉ-KATZ (FRENCH/UKRANIAN 1894–1962)
Seascape
signed MANÉ-KATZ and dated 34 (lower left)
oil on canvas
70.5 x 90.5 cm (27 3/4 x 35 2/3 in)

PROVENANCE:
A gift from the artist in 1935

EXHIBITED:
London, Ben Uri Collection, Opening Exhibition, (titled The Storm)
London, Ben Uri Collection, Selections from the Ben Uri Collection, 1960
London, Ben Uri Collection, Mané-Katz: Memorial Exhibition, 1963
London, Ben Uri Collection, From Russia to Paris: Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries, 2012, illustrated in the catalogue

LITERATURE:
Ben Uri Art Society Permanent Collection Catalogue, London, 1959, no. 132
W. Schwab & J. Weiner, Jewish Artists: The Ben Uri Collection: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, London, 1994, p. 75, no. 267, illustrated
The Public Catalogue Foundation, Oil Paintings in Public Ownership: Camden, Vol. 11, London, 2013, p. 29, illustrated

The funds realised from the sale of this lot will be reinvested in the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum collection mirroring the focus of the Ben Uri Research Unit recording the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900. For further information see benuri.org

See note to lot 302.