Isaac Lichtenstein 1888-1981
Country Scene
drypoint on paper
15 x 18.3
(lower right): Lichtenstein
1988-32
@Isaac Lichtenstein estate
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery
This delicate drypoint depiction of a shtetl, a traditional Eastern-European Jewish settlement, reminiscent in its free-flowing and soft lines of a pencil drawing, references Lichtenstein’s childhood spent in Poland. Depictions...
This delicate drypoint depiction of a shtetl, a traditional Eastern-European Jewish settlement, reminiscent in its free-flowing and soft lines of a pencil drawing, references Lichtenstein’s childhood spent in Poland. Depictions of the traditional way of life in a shtetl were popular among Lichtenstein’s Jewish peers from the Ecole de Paris, a group of artists who settled and worked in Paris in the early 20th century, including, among others, Marc Chagall, Emmanuel Mane-Katz and Marek Szwarc.
Provenance
purchased 1988Literature
Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 136.1
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