Jankel Adler (Polish 1895-1949)
Woman in Chair, c.1941-43
£6,250
Auction: 23 October 2020 from 10:00 BST
Description
inscribed 'Adler' (to reverse), mixed media, gouache on paper laid on cardboard, with pencil sketches and paint daubs to the reverse
Dimensions
61cm x 48.5cm (24in x 19in)
Footnote
The towel on her lap is probably a Jewish prayer shawl, a tales, that Adler features in some of his paintings. He left his prayer shawl to Josef Herman, his great friend, and it was hung in his studio, on the balustrade.
Provenance:
William Kaczynski and by descent.
William Kaczynski came to England with his family in 1939 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He was interned, with his mother and brother for ten months in Rushen Camp on the Isle of Man. He retired in 1989 and amassed an important collection of Second World War postal history artefacts. Kaczynski owned a number of works by Jankel Adler.