Walter Herz, Samson

Walter Herz 1909-1965

Samson

oil and gouache on paper

67.5 x 83.5

and dated (lower right): Herz 47

1987-142

@Walter Herz estate

Photo: Bridgeman images

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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