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Jack Levine (1915-2010) Shammai 19 7/8 x 16in (Painted in 1976.) image 1
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Jack Levine
(1915-2010)
Shammai 19 7/8 x 16in

22 November 2016, 14:00 EST
New York

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Jack Levine (1915-2010)

Shammai
signed 'JLevine' (lower left)
oil on Masonite
19 7/8 x 16in
Painted in 1976.

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
with Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Jacob and Selma Schulman, Gloversville, New York, acquired from the above, 1976.
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, September 23, 1988, lot 309.
Midtown Galleries, New York.
Private collection, Texas.
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, April 23, 1998, lot 171.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above.
By descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
New York, The Jewish Museum, and elsewhere, Jack Levine Retrospective Exhibition, October 1978-January 1979.
New York, The Jewish Museum, Personal Vision: The Schulman Collection of 20th Century American Art, July 2-October 6, 1985, pp. 24-25, both works illustrated.
Brookline, Massachusetts, Hebrew College Museum, Profound Testimony: The Jewish Heritage of Jack Levine, November 1987.

Literature
S.R. Frankel and J. Levine, Jack Levine, New York, 1989, pp. 124-125, both works illustrated.

Accompanying this lot is the final study for the painting, Study for 'Shammai', signed 'JLevine' (lower left), charcoal on tracing paper, 23 1/2 x 18 3/4in, and executed in 1976. This work was purchased from Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, by Jacob and Selma Schulman, in 1977 and later sold with the present lot at Sotheby's New York, in 1988. They have remained together ever since.

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