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Issachar Ryback 1897-1935

The Cockerel, 1920

watercolour on paper

33.5 x 50 cm

(lower left): I. Rybrack

1987-354

Photo: Bridgeman images

In The Cock, Ryback's cockerel bears comparison both with the romantic folkloric imagery of artists such as Chagall, and the expressionistic realism of Soutine's closely-observed studies. The cockerel, a staple...

Provenance

purchased 1935

Exhibitions

Israel Zangwill Memorial Exhibition;Selections from the Permanent Collection: Watercolours, Drawings, Graphics, 1935

Opening Exhibition, Ben Uri Art Gallery, 1944

Exhibition of Paintings by A. A Wolmark (Konstam Collection), Dobrinsky Paris, and a selection of work from the Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Art Gallery, 1945

Selections from the Permanent Collection, Ben Uri Art Gallery, 1960

Paintings from the Ben Uri Art Gallery, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, 1970

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Watercolours, Drawings, Graphics, Ben Uri Gallery, 1977

Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris and School of London works from the Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Gallery, 2012

Chagall, Soutine and the School of Paris, Manchester Jewish Museum, 2013

Literature

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. 92.

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