Emmanuel Levy, Man Reading

Emmanuel Levy 1900-1986

Man Reading

oil on canvas

74 x 48.5

(upper right): E Levy

1987-215

@Emmanuel Levy estate

Photo: Bridgeman images

Executed with accuracy and sensitivity, the (unidentified) sitter is probably the same as in 'Portrait of a Man', also in the Ben Uri collection.

Provenance

on permanent loan

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. 69.

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