Elsa Fraenkel, Head of the Haham Dr Moses Gaster, 1936

Elsa Fraenkel 1892-1975

Head of the Haham Dr Moses Gaster, 1936

bronze with silver patina

48 x 20 x 22 cm

1987-102

Bridgeman images

In 1935 Fraenkel exhibited six works with the Leicester Galleries and the following year participated in Ben Uri's annual open show. Ben Uri subsequently commissioned her portrait of Haham, Sir...

Provenance

purchased in 1947

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. 43.

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