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Artworks
Issachar Ryback 1897-1935
The Cockerel, 1920watercolour on paper33.5 x 50 cm(lower left): I. Rybrack1987-354Photo: Bridgeman imagesIn 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...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 of the French still-life, may be a symbol of his adopted French home, but also evokes the Jewish tradition of kapparot, where the sins of a person are symbolically transferred to a fowl. Le Repos, Ryback's sensitively-observed study of a horse at rest by is animated by a vivid palette and the beautifully rendered landscape which surrounds it.Provenance
purchased 1935Exhibitions
Israel Zangwill Memorial Exhibition;Selections from the Permanent Collection: Watercolours, Drawings, Graphics, 1935Opening 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.