




Abraham Rattner(American, 1895-1978)Flagellation (Composition I)
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Abraham Rattner (American, 1895-1978)
signed 'Rattner' (lower right); titled and dated '1953 Composition I Flagellation No. 635' (by hand on the reverse); identified on a label from The Downtown Gallery, New York, New York (affixed to the reverse)
oil on board
101.6 x 81.3 cm (40 x 32 in).
framed 117.5 x 107.5 x 4.5 cm (46 1/4 x 42 5/16 x 1 3/4 in).
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Provenance
The Downtown Gallery, New York, New York (according to a label affixed to the reverse).
A private Monarch Beach, California, collection.
Bonhams California, Modern, Contemporary & Latin American Art, November 6, 2005, lot 108.
A private Massachusetts collection (acquired from the previous).
N.B.
The present work epitomizes Abraham Rattner's expressive, surrealist appropriation of spiritual motifs, informed by his Jewish heritage and close study of stained glass. (He designed the stained glass east wall in Chicago's Loop Synagogue in 1960.) Rattner's work is held in many large museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Institute of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.