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Lot 119

Abel Pann
(Israeli/Russian, 1883-1963)
Russian landscape in winter

29 February 2012, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£12,000 - £16,000

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Abel Pann (Israeli/Russian, 1883-1963)

Russian landscape in winter
signed 'Abel Pann' (lower left)
pastel and coloured chalks
47 x 62cm (18 1/2 x 24 7/16in).
circa 1941

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PROVENANCE:
A private collection, Israel
Sale, Sotheby's New York, 18 December 2007, lot 24

Abel Pann was born in Latvia in 1883. Pann studied the fundamentals of drawing for three months with the painter Yehuda Pen of Vitebsk, who also taught Marc Chagall. In 1903, he was in Kishinev and documented the Kishinev pogrom with drawings. It is thought that this effort contributed to his self-definition as an artist who chronicles Jewish history. In 1903 he moved to Paris, where he rented rooms in La Ruche, a Parisian building where Modigliani, Chagall, Chaim Soutine and other Jewish artists also lived. In 1912, Boris Schatz, founder and director of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design visited Pann in Paris and invited him to come and work in Jerusalem.

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