Walter Herz, Samson

oil and gouache on paper

67.5 x 83.5

and dated (lower right): Herz 47

1987-142

Samson is an impressionistic rendering of the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites’ death in the Temple of Dagon.

Provenance

presented by V. V. Rosenfeld

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. 52.

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Walter Herz 1909-1965

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